"The Rise of Mayawati and the Changing Politics of Uttar Pradesh"

Dr. A. K. Verma teaches Politics at Christ Church College, Kanpur. He has been teaching under-graduate and post-graduate students since 1977. The courses taught included European Political Thinkers (especially Plato, Mill, and Hegel), Constitutions of the USA, UK, France, and India, Government and Politics in India with special reference to Uttar Pradesh, and Indian Administration. He has also written about a hundred journalistic articles in leading Hindi Daily ‘Dainik Jagran, Janasatta, Aaj etc. He worked as a Member of the Textbook Development Team, NCERT, Delhi for Class XI to assist in the preparation of, the New Generation of Text Books for Political Science (Indian Constitution at Work) under the National Curriculum Framework-2005. He was invited as a Resource Person to train the cadre of some national political parties. Since 1999, he is the State Coordinator of Uttar Pradesh at Lokniti, and is involved with the National Election Studies (NES) in India.

Dr. Verma has been associated with several journals and is currently the Editor of Shodharthy –An Abstract of Journals in Social Sciences (Hindi), Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi since January 2005. He is the Managing Editor for Sankalp Shodh, Centre for the Study of Society and Politics (CSSP), Kanpur since 2004, and a member of the Editorial Board of, Society and Development Journal, Academy for Social Development, Kanpur, since 2003. He has also worked as Editor, The Lokniti Bulletin, Institute for Comparative Democracy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, 2002-2004, and Editor, The U.P. Journal of Political Science, Official Journal of the U.P. Political Science Association, 1989-98. Dr. Verma was invited to work as Consultant to the Special Volume on Electoral Politics of ‘The Indian Journal of Politics' (May-June 2006), Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 2006.