Dr Véronique Bénéï

Dr Veronique Bénéï teaches in the Department of Anthropology at LSE and is a research fellow at the CNRS (Maison Français, Oxford). She did her doctoral work on India at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. Her thesis explored the social issue of dowry in India through an ethnography of marriage prestations conducted among Marathas and allied castes in rural and urban Maharashtra, Central India. She is currently completing an ESRC-funded project on education and nationalism in the southernmost city of Kolhapur in Maharashtra where she is looking at the ways in which a sense of belonging to the locality, the region and the nation is transmitted/taught to primary school-going children. She is also participating with colleagues in LSE and Paris in an ESRC- and CNRS-funded research project on globalisation and its impacts in India. Dr Bénéï is also interested in the contemporary transformations of South Asian studies. 

Selected publications:

2008. Schooling Passions: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India. Chicago: Stanford University Press. (download PDF flyer/order form)

2003. (co-edited with Jackie Assayag) At home in Diaspora: South Asian scholars and the west. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

2001. (co-edited with Chris Fuller) The everyday state and society in modern India. London: Hurst. (Delhi: Social Science Press, 2000.)

1996. La Dot en Inde: un fléau social? Paris: Karthala.

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