Gyanesh Kudaisya

Who is Gyanesh Kudaisya?

Gyanesh Kudaisya is a historian of modern India whose main research focuses on Uttar Pradesh, India. He is Associate Professor in the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. He was the Head of the South Asian Studies Programme from 2006 to 2010. His research interests focus upon post-colonial South Asian history. He has done extensive studies on the political history of Uttar Pradesh. He has proposed the idea of dividing Uttar Pradesh into three different regions to make it governable." "With a deeply fragmented polity and a lack of cohesiveness in its political life, the time has come for Uttar Pradesh to rethink its status as a 'heartland'. He argues that a beginning to this effect has been made with the creation of Uttaranchal, carved out of the hilly region of Uttar Pradesh, in November 2000. "However, the process has to go much further." He is currently working on the politics of states reorganization in post-colonial India. He is also the board member of Singapore's first Indian Heritage Center scheduled to be open in 2012.