Srinath Raghavan is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Centre on Asia and Globalisation. He is also Professor of International Relations & History at Ashoka University and non-resident Senior Fellow at Carnegie India. He has previously taught at King’s College London and worked at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Raghavan’s research spans the historical and contemporary aspects of international, strategic and political affairs in South Asia. He is the author of several books, including Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India (Yale University Press, 2025); Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia (Basic Books, 2018), India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 (Basic Books, 2016), 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (Harvard University Press, 2013), and War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has also co-authored/edited another five books.
Raghavan took his PhD in War Studies from King’s College London. He was a member of the National Security Advisory Board, Government of India (2013-15) and the official historian of the Kargil War with the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (2015).