Dr. Seyed Hossein Zarhani
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Designation: |
Assistant Professor |
| Room: | 3, 1st floor | |
| Tel.: | +49 6221 5415292 | |
| Email: | zarhani@uni-heidelberg.de | |
| Office Hours: |
Tuesday 2 pm to 3.30 pm or upon arrangement Please send an email beforehand for an appointment |
Short Bio-data
Seyed Hossein Zarhani is a research fellow and lecturer at the Political Science Department of the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University. He is currently pursuing his habilitation with a comparative research project on the political economy of India.
He has defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute of Political Science (IPW), Heidelberg University. His doctoral research on "Dynamics of Governance and Development in India: a Comparative Study on Andhra Pradesh and Bihar after 1990" was supervised by Professor Subrata K. Mitra and Professor Dietmar Rothermund.
He is a member of the editorial staff at the 'Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics' (HPSACP). He also has several work experiences at different research institutes in Iran.
He studied Political Science at Tehran University (Iran) and Osmania University, Hyderabad (India). He won the Gold medal in the National Olympiad of Persian literature in 1999.
Research Interests
Governance
Politics in India
Political Economy: Development and Democracy in South Asia
Islam in South Asia
Islamic Political Thought
Iranian Politics and History
