Anit Mukherjee

Anit Mukherjee is the director of Carnegie India. Previously, he was a senior lecturer at the King's India Institute. He joined King's after ten years in Singapore where he was an associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. From 2010-2012, he was a research fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi.

He has a PhD from the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University and a post doctorate at the Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania. While in the doctoral program, he worked at the Brookings Institution and was a summer associate at RAND Corporation.

Anit is the author of The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats and the Military in India (NY: Oxford University Press, 2019), which examines the role of civil-military relations and military effectiveness. He is the co-editor of India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea (Routledge, 2019) and India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security (Routledge, 2015).

He has published in Armed Forces & Society, European Journal of International Security, Asian Security, Asia Policy, New York Times, and The Caravan, among others. His article ‘Fighting separately: Jointness and Civil-Military Relations in India’ was awarded the 2017 Amos Perlmutter prize by The Journal of Strategic Studies. Currently, he is working on a co-authored book on India’s defense policies.

Formerly, he was a major in the Indian Army and is an alumnus of India’s National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla.