Dr. Saarang Narayan

Name: Dr. Saarang Narayan  

Email: saarangnarayan@yahoo.co.in

I am a historian of twentieth-century South Asia, focusing on economic nationalism and far-right politics in India, especially in the post-Independence period. My research interests include histories of economic thought, nationalism, far-right politics, social movements, consumerism, developmentalism, neoliberalism, and nation-making in twentieth-century South Asia. My postdoctoral research project at IISER looks at the dissemination of economic nationalist rhetoric in the advertising and marketing of consumer goods in the early post-Independence years.

Some of my research has been published in academic journals such as Modern Asian Studies and Globalizations. I am currently working on my first monograph, which traces the intellectual history of Swadeshi and its relationship with India’s far-right movement in the twentieth century.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-6602
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9vGfqhUAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1

Educational Details:

Ph.D. in History, School of History, University of Leeds (2018–2024)
M.St. in Modern South Asian Studies, School of History, University of Oxford (2016–2017)
B.A. in History (Hons.), Hansraj College, University of Delhi (2013–2016)

List of Publications:

Narayan, S. (2025) ‘Swadeshi globalization: Dattopant Thengadi’s Hindu Nationalist path for globalization in late twentieth-century India’, Globalizations, pp. 1–22. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2025.2573111?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstract.

Chaudhary, N. and Narayan, S. (2024) ‘Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India’, Modern Asian Studies, 58(3), pp. 885–911. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/hindutva-in-the-shadow-of-the-mahatma-m-s-golwalkar-m-k-gandhi-and-the-rss-in-postcolonial-india/68676BDD205B98828EC18C53C20BE4A7?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark.