Sumit Ganguly is professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, USA. He is also an adjunct professor of political science and a member of the Southern Asian Institute of Columbia University. During 1993-94 he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. A specialist on security issues in South Asia, he has authored several books, including (with Harold Gould) The Hope and the Reality: U.S.-Indian Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan and India Votes: Alliance Politics and Minority Governments in the Ninth and Tenth General Elections, and written numerous articles for journals and magazines. Professor Ganguly has received awards and grants from the Ford Foundation, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and the American Institute for Indian Studies. He has recently published a book that traces the origins of the Kashmir crisis.