Dr Mujibur Rehman  is a  political scientist  by training and pursues inter- disciplinary research. He works at the interface of identity politics and development politics.  His latest book is, Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics( Routledge 2018). The new edition of his  volume, Communalism  in  postcolonial India:  Changing Contours( Routledge 2016) is  republished in  2018 with a foreward by Romila Thapar and   afterward by Dipesh Chakrabarty. He is currently working on two  book projects simultaneously: one on Indian  Muslims and other on Politics of Anti- Christian Violence in India. He wrote   his doctoral dissertation on, Politics of India’s Economic Reform( 1991/92-2004).

He writes opeds and reviews in major  Indian newspapers and is occasionally   interviewed in major  global outlet such as The Time, Boston Globe, Der Speigel German on line) etc. Dr Rehman has received his graduate training  Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), New Delhi;  the University of Heidelberg, Germany; the University of Texas, Austin, USA.