Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra.
Amit Singh is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. He holds a PhD in Human Rights from the same university. His research interests include right-wing politics in India, religious populism and emotions, Hindu nationalism, secularism, human rights, and religious minorities. His latest article is ‘Secularism in the Troubled “Waters” of “Hindu Nationalism”: A Case Study of the Conflict between Freedom of Expression and Religion in India’ (Secular Studies, 2024), ‘Human Rights and Secularism in Conflict with Hindutva: The Water Controversy’ (Antropologia Portuguesa, 2023). He is the author of An Approach to Hindutva in India (Bharti Publication, 2024). Amit is a Sylff Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Japan; a research fellow at the Comenius University, Slovakia; and a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of the Indian Languages Society in India.