Shivaji Mukherjee, University of Toronto

Research

counter-insurgency South Asia civil war duration Maoist insurgency Kashmir insurgency state motivations low intensity conflict India

Latest funding

State Motivations and Civil War Duration-Explaining sub-national variation in counter insurgency in India
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$59,241

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State Motivations and Civil War Duration-Explaining sub-national variation in counter insurgency in India

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Mukherjee, Shivaji

Keywords: counter-insurgency; South Asia; civil war duration; Maoist insurgency; Kashmir insurgency; state motivations; low intensity conflict; India; political violence; civil war intensity

$59,241

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: counter-insurgency Dear Professor Mukherjee, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on counter-insurgency connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "State Motivations and Civil War Duration-Explaining sub-national variation in counter insurgency in India" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]