{"id":1827,"date":"2026-01-15T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/?page_id=1827"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:38:33","slug":"dr-saarang-narayan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/dr-saarang-narayan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Saarang Narayan"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Name<\/strong>: Dr. Saarang Narayan  <\/div>\r\n
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Email<\/strong>: saarangnarayan@yahoo.co.in<\/div>\r\n
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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.\r\n

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\u2019s far-right movement in the twentieth century.<\/p>\r\n

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

Educational Details:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Ph.D. in History, School of History, University of Leeds (2018\u20132024)
M.St. in Modern South Asian Studies, School of History, University of Oxford (2016\u20132017)
B.A. in History (Hons.), Hansraj College, University of Delhi (2013\u20132016)<\/p>\r\n

List of Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Narayan, S. (2025) \u2018Swadeshi globalization: Dattopant Thengadi\u2019s Hindu Nationalist path for globalization in late twentieth-century India\u2019, Globalizations, pp. 1\u201322. https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14747731.2025.2573111?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstract.<\/p>\r\n

Chaudhary, N. and Narayan, S. (2024) \u2018Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: M. S. Golwalkar, M. K. Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India\u2019, Modern Asian Studies, 58(3), pp. 885\u2013911. 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.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1827\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.iisermohali.ac.in\/dept\/hss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}