Biography

Amit is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES) University of Coimbra. His research is focused on 'Hindu Religious Populism and its use against Christian and Muslim Minorities minorities in India'. Amit is also a Sylff fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research Japan, holder of a Slovakian national scholarship, and a research associate at the Centre for the Study at the Indian Languages Society in India. At CES, Amit is a team member in the FCT project (d)e-HATE: Explorando o Ódio Digital: Racismo Online contra Comunidades Imigrantes e Racializadas em Portugal. Amit holds MSc. from the University of Southeastern Norway, M.A. from Mahidol University, Thailand and M.A.from Pondicherry University, India. He was a Fritt ord scholar (Norway), holder of SUPRA NORDIC scholarship (Denmark), and received Sylff research grant (Japan, 2022). Amit has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Bangkok, Thailand) the United Nations Development Program (New Delhi, India), the National Human Rights Commission of India and the Philippines. His research interests are Hindu Nationalism, populism, right-wing extremism, human rights and freedom of expression. In 2021, he was a visiting researcher at Lund University, Sweden. Amit holds membership in The European Consortium for Political Research, the European Association for South Asian Studies, and the Indian Sociological Society. He has contributed opinion pieces/blogs to the London School of Economics, The George Washington University, ECPR's The Loop, and Publico and have been interviewed by various national and international media channels. For his contribution to democracy and human rights in South Asia, Amit was awarded the Nordic Mela Peace Award 2025 in Sweden.