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is former professor of political sociology in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A renowned social scientist Prof. Ahmad is known for his pioneering work on social conditions of Muslims in India captured- Caste and Social stratification among Muslims in India. He has written a number of research articles in national and international magazines and journals on the politics of communalism, electoral democracy, and day-to-day cultural and social practices in popular discourse. Most significantly, an avid participator in public forums he has been a source of motivation for young scholars and social activists.
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teaches psychology in Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. His prime interest lies in understanding socio-psychological issues of development from the perspectives of marginal communities.
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is a political psychologist and sociologist of science who has worked on cultures of knowledge, visions, and dialogue of civilizations. At present he is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, both located in Delhi. Nandy has coauthored a number of human rights reports and is active in movements for peace, alternative sciences and technologies, and cultural survival. He is a member of the Executive Councils of the World Future Studies Federation, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, the International Network for Cultural Alternatives to Development, and the People's Union for Civil Liberties. Nandy has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Hull, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He held the first UNESCO Chair at the Center for European Studies, University of Trier, in 1994.
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is former a bureaucrat and writer. He represented India as an Executive Director, World Bank and headed the Ministry of Culture and Home, Government of India. He has extensively written on the development issues of North-east India and cultural heritage of India. His previous publications include Thread Woven, Ideas, Principles and Administration; The Cultural Renaissance and the Indian National Congress; The Problem of Change: A Study of North-east India; and India's Culture: the State, the Arts Beyond and co-edited book The Millennium on New Delhi with Pawan Kumar Varma.
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is professor, department of anthropology, Smith College, Northampton. With the Peruvian NGO PRATEC, she had created a research and community center in the Peruvian High Amazon where she directed a program in Bio-cultural Diversity. She alongwith Stephen A. Marglin formed an interdisciplinary and international collaborative team that produced three books on critical approaches to development and globalization. Her widely acclaimed works include The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development, Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue, Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture & Resistance. At present she is finishing a book based on her collaboration with several Peruvian organizations as well as her current work with a Fair Trade Organic Coffee Cooperative in the Peruvian High Amazon.
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is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anthropology, John Hopkins University. Her specialization is on environmental contestation and social movements, civil society and globalization and environmental imaginaries and identities especially in the context of the Appalachian region. She has theoretical expertise in post-development studies, gender studies, social theory and cultural studies, feminist epistemology and ethnological theories of ritual and religious cosmogenesis. Her recent works includes Civil Society in Appalachia, Research Report of the Appalachian Centre, University of Kentucky, (co-authored) with Herbert G. Reid), “Globalisation, Democracy, and the Aesthetic Ecology of Emergent Public For a Sustainable World: Working From John Dewey” in Ananta Giri and Philips Quarles von Ufford (eds) The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Reconstituting Power and Freedom, “The Political Economy of ‘Scaling Up’: The Civic Ecology of Activism in Central Appalachia” in P.P. Karan (ed) Grassroots Environmental Movements in Japan and the United States.
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is professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. His major teaching and research interests are in contemporary political philosophy, American political thought and culture, Appalachian politics, globalization theory, and political and social ecology. His articles have appeared in leading journals of social and political theory such as Rethinking Marxism, Theory and Society, and Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. He also contributes to journals such as New Political Science, Ethics and the Environment, and the Journal of Appalachian Studies. He is a member of the editorial board of Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. He has served as Environmental Studies Director and Director of UK's Appalachian Center. He is a member of UK's Committee on Social Theory and of the Appalachian Studies Program. For the past three years, he has served as a Co-PI for the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program.
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is professor of human geography in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New delhi. He has extensively written on the development issues of North-east India. Presently he is finishing a book on biopolitics in India.
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is professor of psychology in University of Delhi, Delhi.
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is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Her research focuses on water resources development; gender and the environment and involuntary resettlements due to infrastructure projects mixing research and field experience in rural contexts. She has been a regular consultant to with UN system and does also freelance journalism. Her book The Naturalisation of Scarcity: The Politics and Poetics of Water in Western India is widely acclaimed in the field of water and development.
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teaches sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests include colonial anthropology, communalism, and subaltern groups. She is the author of Dishonoured by History: Criminal Tribes and British Colonial Policy.
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is Associate Professor in Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on environmental politics, with a focus on social inequality and natural resource conflicts, environmental and indigenous social movements, anthropology of development, urban environmental politics, state formation and the environment in south Asia. She is the author of the widely acclaimed book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley.
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is at present with the faculty of social history, G.B. Panth Social Science Institute, Allahabad. He has published Lok Sanskriti Mein Rashtravad; Documenting Dissent: Contesting Fables, Contesting Memories and Dalit Power Discourse and a number of papers in reputed journals.
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is a seasoned journalist and at present the associate editor of the leading Indian news daily the Hindu.
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is lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the state of Jharkhand in eastern India exploring international debates of postcolonial development around the state, democracy and corruption, labour migration and the environment, the development of indigenous movements and the spread of revolutionary armed guerrillas – the Naxalites. She is currently writing a monograph entitled, In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics in Jharkhand, India.
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is a research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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is an environmentalist and activist based in India. He is editor of the Lokayan Bulletin and a political organizer involved in ecological, cultural, and human rights issues striving to collectively forge a national and global alternative that is socially just and ecologically sane. He is also, at Lokayan, the Programme Director of the Seeds of Hope and the Tribal Self-Rule Programs. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Princeton universities. He is president of the International Group for Grassroots Initiatives, a member of the Ethics Working Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a contributing editor at The Ecologist and Development, and a founding member of Jan Vikas Andolan (Movement for Peoples Development). He has published extensively on critiques of contemporary economic and cultural development, the relationship of nature, culture, and democracy, developmental displacement, and social movements. He also heads the organization Intercultural Resources based in New Delhi.
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is Assistant Professor at Centre For Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research focuses on the technology of hydraulic manipulation in the Indian subcontinent. His publications and concerns range from issues dealing with environmental history, the political economy of nature conservation and history of technology. He is the author of the recently published book Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India.
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is a prominent social scientist and public intellectual from the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), India, working on social science research and literacy. By profession he is an economist but his research for many years has focused on politics in the state of Bihar.
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is Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has published reviews, articles, and book chapters in prestigious journals in India and abroad.
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is at present a Senior Researcher in political theory at the Department of Political Science, Radbound University, Nijmegen, Amsterdam. Her main research interests include theories of equality and justice, feminist economics, Amartya Sen's capability approach, gender justice, and proposals to reform the welfare state (such as basic income). Her publications have appeared in a wide variety of academic journals, including Feminist Economics, Gender and Development, Analyse und Kritik, Constellations, Metaphilosophy, and the Journal of Human Development, amongst others. Together with Bina Agarwal and Jane Humphries she has recently edited a book on Amartya Sen's Work and Ideas: A Gender Perspective.
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is a scholar-activist and is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and Research Director of the Krantivir Trust. For quite a long span she has been working with new social movements, in particular women's groups and farmer's organizations. She has been actively involved with movements for women's empowerment on several fronts. Her academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender issues, most notably: We shall Smash this prison: Indian Women in Struggle, Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements in India , Gender and Technology: Emerging Asian Visions , Dalits and The democratic revolution, Dalit Visions: the Anticaste movement and Indian Culutural Identity).
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teaches economics at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, Delhi. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming book Rich Nation Poor People: Perspectives on the Neoliberal Regime in India.
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is former Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi. He began his career with papers in physical anthropology, wrote thereafter on social anthropology, and later made several contributions to prehistory, especially the ecological and evolutionary aspects. He is author of the book Ecology and Social Formation in Ancient History, Palaeolithic Europe : A Summary of Some Important Finds with Special Reference to Central Europe and Issues and Themes in Anthropology.
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is a free lance development consultant and scholar-activist. He heads a voluntary organization named Marfat which is instrumental in working towards constructing a national platform for the Mir community from the Pugal region in Rajasthan who are responsible for kindling the vibrant tradition of singing Sufiyana kalaam for centuries together.
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is currently Visiting Professor, Collaborative International Development Studies, Department of Sociology International and Anthropology, University of Guelph, Canada. His research focus has been labour migration in the Indian context. He worked for three years at the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK. and was part of team carried out commissioned work on poverty in Asia and Africa, on urban poverty, and on the concept of and policies to address social exclusion in both North and South.
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is Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India. He is the author of several books including Theatre and the World, The Question of Faith, In the Name of the Secular, The Politics of Cultural Practice, and Rajasthan: An Oral History. His current project is an inter-Asian study of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, within the larger contexts of nationalism, pan-Asianism, and cosmopolitanism.
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is a renowned sociologist and former Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Between 1990 and 1994 he was also President of the International Sociological Association. A prolific writer his work is scattered in several books which he wrote and co-edited which includes Crisis and Contention in Indian Society, Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements Essays in Political Sociology, The Christian Clergy in India, Citizenship and National Identity From Colonialism to Globalism, Protests and Change and Alien Concepts and South Asian Reality, Pluralism, Equality and Identity: Comparative Studies and research papers.
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is Senior Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Germany. She has been working in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, researching a group of industrial workers belonging to the Untouchable Caste- the Khatik, a caste of pork butchers and swineherds, who attained affluence through the bristle dressing trade.
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is Professor of history at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. His publications include Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Mill workers of Bombay, 1890-1919. He has published articles on ‘Communalism and Working Class: Riot of 1893 in Bombay’, ‘Cotton Mill workers in Bombay, 1875 to 1918: Conditions of Work and Life’ in Economic and Political Weekly and ‘The Contested Terrain: Hours of Work in the Cotton Mills of Bombay, 1875-1920’ in Contemporary India.
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is a scholar-activist and heads Bhasha Center which is engaged in conserving tribal culture, redefining its identity in the contemporary context and preserving its civilizational values. He taught literature at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda before moving into the ara of tribal languages and oral literature. He has initiated a cultural movement among the tribal communities of western India and has been involved in carrying out research in tribal culture. He is the author of the book Of Many Heroes.
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is a political - sociologist working at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi as Honorary Senior Fellow. He is the Founder- Director of Lokayan, a CSDS programme on Democracy and Development which has been functioning since 1983 as an independent movement-organisation. He served as a social scientist member of National Commission for Backward Classes (1993-1996) and as President of the Delhi Chapter of People's Union for Civil Liberties (1990-1992). Currently he is editing the journal Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. His recent publications include: Minority Identities and the Nation State, "Caste and the Secularisation Process in India" in Peter Ronal DeSouza (ed.), Contemporary India-Transitions, (2000). "The Crisis of Political Authority" in Rajendra Vora & Suhas Palshikar (eds.), Indian Democracy: Meaning and Practices, "Caste, Ethnicity and Exclusion in South Asia", a paper Contributed to: Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Liberty in Today's diverse World.
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is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, At Los Angeles, USA. He has written regularly on a wide variety of subjects for periodicals in the US, India, and Britain on various aspects of the political and legal history of colonial India, sexuality in modern India, the popular Hindi film, the Indian diaspora, Indian documentaries, the politics and history of history, dissent in the Gandhian mode, contemporary American politics, the politics of culture, genocide, and the global politics of knowledge systems. Some of his noted books are The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India, Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy, Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture, The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-first Century, (co-edited with Ashis Nandy) and an edited work entitled Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destinations of Ashis Nandy.
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teaches juridicial anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is one of the founding members of the South/North Network on Cultures and Development (in short: Network Cultures) which aims to offer concepts, tools and data to assist practionners in coping more effectively with local cultures in development theory and in their practice. He has been an expert for UNESCO and member of the staff at the ICHEC in Brussels (1985) and author of the book No Life without Roots.
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is a visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India, and a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Jaipur, India. Her work on the Muslim Meo community is a significant contribution to studies of subaltern dissent later published as a book Against History, Against StateCounterperspectives from the Margins. She is also the author of Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity, the co-author of Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanambhumi Movement and the Fear of Self, and a member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective.
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is Associate Professor of Maori Education and Director of the International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She works as a consultant to the development of aboriginal and indigenous studies at five major universities in Australia and Greenland. In New Zealand she has been central to the development of a tribal university, Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, and to the nationwide movement for an alternative schooling system, Kura Kaupapa Maori. Her leadership represents the pioneering work of Maori scholars and activists which inspires indigenous and sovereignty work internationally. She is the author of the book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.
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is a Delhi based social linguist. She has done research project for the US National Science Foundation on language death in the case of Bhojpuri in Trinidad. She has taught Linguistics as well as Mass Communications, has worked as a producer of children television programmes, as a cartoon animator, graphic artist, and now is a teacher of western music at the Vasant Valley School, New Delhi.
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is a Professor at the Zakir Hussain Centre For Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Among his books are – Bilingualism in a multilingual society; and Psychology of poverty and disadvantage. He has published extensively in the areas of psycholinguistics, multilingualism and reading processes and his work has focused on issues relating to education, poverty and disadvantage of linguistic minorities in multilingual societies characterized by unequal power relationship between languages.
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Reader, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi. She has written extensively on the Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Language Teaching and Morphology especially focusing on the languages of North-east India.
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is Assistant Professor of Hindi Journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. He has been a freelance journalist and writer for more than two decades. Before joining teaching he has worked in electronic media as producer of News Magazines Programme in Hindi for National Channels of All India Radio and as Casual News editor and News Reader of Doordarshan. He has a keen interest in communication, information technologies, and languages.
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is a renowned labour historian and formerly Professor at at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has also held teaching and research appointments at the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, the University of Chicago, St. Antony's College at Oxford University, and El Colegio de Mexico. He is the author of the well acclaimed book Vande Mataram - The Biography of a Song and The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-41.
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is Senior Advisor, Labour, with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, New Delhi. A development economist by training he has long experience working on labour issues especially trade unions and employers 'organisations. He has also written a large number of papers on topical issues and the same had been presented in national and international fora. Globalization and its impact on the working class movement; changing nature of trade unionism; informal sector/workers, promoting workable industrial relations, child labouer, poverty, etc.
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teaches history at Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi. Her Phd work 'Primitives’ and History-writing in a Colonial Society is recently been published as a book.
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is a senior bureaucrat and currently Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre For Arts, New Delhi. An officer of India Administrative Service he has a PhD from Harvard, author of the entries on Indian Art in the Grove Encyclopedia of Art.
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is Chair and Professor at Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University. Professor Ferguson’s research has been conducted in Lesotho and Zambia, and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. A central theme running through it has been a concern with the political, broadly conceived, and with the relation between specific social and cultural processes and the abstract narratives of “development” and “modernization” through which such processes have so often been known and understood. His most recent book is Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order address a range of specific topics, ranging from structural adjustment, the crisis of the state, and the emergence of new forms of government-via-NGO, to the question of the changing social meaning of "modernity" for colonial and postcolonial urban Africans.
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is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Duke University. His prime focus of research has been culture, history, and power, and specialize in Latin America, Native North America, and, more recently, sports and society. A prolific writer he is the author of Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last 'Wild' Indian, Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes including three books in Spanish, and a co-edited anthology about cultural politics and social protest Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest. At present he is co-editing a forthcoming collection of articles by prominent scholars about the new visibility of indigenous identity and politics worldwide -Indigenous Experience Today (forthcoming).
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is Lead Economist in the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank where he has been working since 1999 after stints at the Universities of Chicago and Michigan, and Williams College. His work attempts to integrate economic and anthropological methods to inform poverty-reduction policies in poor countries. His publications include a book on the relationship between culture and development policy- Culture and Public Action (co-edited with Michael Walton) and papers on the broad themes of decentralized local development, gender inequality, culture and economic behavior and mixing qualitative and quantitative methods. He is currently involved in research projects on local development in India and Indonesia, and the relationship between social and economic mobility.
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