Ornit Shani
Ornit Shani ()is an Israeli academic, author and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa. She won the "Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize" in 2018 for her book "How India Became Democratic." Her previous book is "Communalism, Caste, and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat" which covers identity and caste politics, the rise of Hindu nationalism, Indian citizenship, democracy and the history of elections.