Manjari Katju is a professor of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, and author of Electoral Practice and the Election Commission of India: Politics, Institutions and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Hinduising Democracy: The Vishva Hindu Parishad in Contemporary India (New Text, 2017), and, Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics (Orient Longman/Blackswan, 2003/2010). She was the recipient of the Dr. D.C. Pavate Fellowship in 2001 to research at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. She also received the ICSSR Senior Research Fellowship in 2016 to study the functioning of the electoral administration of India.