Prem Kumar Vijayan

Prem Kumar Vijayan received his MPhil in English from the University of Delhi and his PhD from the International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague, Netherlands). His doctoral dissertation, “Making the Pitrubhumi: Masculine Hegemony and the Formation of the Hindu Nation,” was on Hindu nationalism and masculinity. It has been substantially revised and recently published as a book, Gender and Hindu Nationalism: Understanding Masculine Hegemony (2019). Vijayan is widely published in both academic and nonacademic books and journals, with writings on a variety of issues, including caste inequality, the privatization of higher education, state violence, corruption, terrorism, sexuality, and more.