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Nandini Sundar

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PhD Sociology Delhi University
Masters Sociology Delhi University
Bachelors Sociology Delhi University

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According to Wikipedia, Nandini Sundar is an Indian professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics whose research interests include political sociology, law, and inequality. She is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2010. She was also awarded the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research in 2016 and the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies in 2017.

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Nandini Sundar's Published Works

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Published Works

Unpacking the 'Joint' in Joint Forest Management (2000) (187)
Devolution as a threat to democratic-decision making in forestry?: findings from three states in India (2003) (162)
Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar, 1854-1996 (1998) (95)
Is Devolution Democratization (2001) (85)
A new moral economy for India's forests? Discourses of community and participation. (1999) (68)
Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (2002) (60)
Democracy versus Economic Transformation (2008) (45)
“Indigenise, nationalise and spiritualise”– an agenda for education? (2002) (38)
Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia (2012) (35)
Toward an anthropology of culpability (2004) (31)
The rule of law and citizenship in central India: post-colonial dilemmas (2011) (31)
Vigilantism, Culpability and Moral Dilemmas (2010) (25)
Divining Evil: The State and Witchcraft in Bastar (2001) (19)
Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology (2007) (19)
‘Winning Hearts and Minds’: emotional wars and the construction of difference (2012) (17)
Caste as Census Category: Implications for Sociology (2000) (17)
Mimetic sovereignties, precarious citizenship: state effects in a looking-glass world1 (2014) (16)
Interning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy (2011) (13)
Legal grounds : natural resources, identity, and the law in Jharkhand (2009) (13)
The idea of Indian society: G.S.Ghurye and the making of Indian Sociology (2007) (11)
Academic Freedom and Indian Universities (2018) (10)
Caste and the census: implications for society and the social sciences. (1998) (10)
Debating dussehra and reinterpreting rebellion in bastar district, central india (2001) (9)
Teaching to Hate (2005) (9)
In times of civil war: On being a schizophrenic (public) sociologist (2014) (9)
Bastar, Maoism and Salwa Judum (2020) (8)
:Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2007) (7)
Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics from Governmentality (2012) (7)
The Scheduled Tribes and Their India: Politics, Identities, Policies, and Work (2016) (7)
Snakes and ladders: rethinking social mobility in post-reform India (2016) (7)
Reflections on civil liberties, citizenship, Adivasi agency and Maoism: A response to Alpa Shah (2013) (7)
Sliding from majoritarianism toward fascism: Educating India under the Modi regime (2020) (6)
Missing the ethical wood for the bureaucratic trees (2006) (5)
Educating for Inequality: The Experiences of India's “Indigenous” Citizens (2010) (5)
In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan. By Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar.Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. xxv, 403 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). (2005) (5)
Religion and culture in Bastar: The politics of conversion (2001) (4)
Joint Forest Management: A Silent Revolution among Forest Department Staff? (2001) (4)
In search of Gunda Dhur : colonialism and contestation in Bastar, Central India, 1854-1993 (1995) (3)
Civil wars in South Asia : state, sovereignty, development (2014) (3)
Civil society and democratic change in Asia (2010) (2)
India’s Unofficial Emergency (2020) (2)
B.M. PUGH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2009-10 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EXCLUSION, RELIGIOUS INCLUSION: THE ADIVASI QUESTION IN EDUCATION (2009) (2)
The dreaded Danteswari: Annals of alleged sacrifice (1995) (2)
Introduction: Sovereignty, Development and Civil War (2014) (2)
Hostages to Democracy (2018) (2)
Public-Private Partnerships in the Industry of Insecurity (2013) (1)
Writing Counter-insurgency, Conflict and Democracy (2019) (1)
Hindutva Incorporation and Socioconomic Exclusion (2019) (1)
Violence, resources, and the law (2015) (1)
Contextualizing Civil Wars in South Asia (2014) (1)
For a Sociology of India: Satish Saberwal in conversation with Nandini Sundar and Amita Baviskar (2008) (1)
A Political Scientist Among the Anthropologists1 One of the central questions driving my research as a political scientist is understanding why ethnic conflict in multi-ethnic states revolves (2017) (0)
The Dilemmas of “Working” Anthropology in Twenty-first-Century India (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : AMITA BAVISKAR, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995, 286 pp., Rs. 475 (1996) (0)
Universities as Sites of Power, Violence (and Justice?) (2018) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1997) (0)
Undue Process and the Paradox of Increasing Juridification (2014) (0)
Book Review: Anuj Bhuwania. 2017. Courting the People: Public Interest in Post-Emergency India and Pooja Parmar. 2016. Indigeneity and Legal Pluralism in India: Claims, Histories, Meanings (2018) (0)
Book reviews and notices : RICHARD SAUMAREZ SMITH, Rule by records: Land registration and village custom in early British Panjab. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. 451 pp. Glossary, bibliography. Rs. 695 (hardback) (2000) (0)
Letter to the Editors (2017) (0)
Reconstructing the World: B. R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India. Edited by SURENDRA JONDHALE and JOHANNES BELTZ. New Delhi: Oxford (2007) (0)
The Trophies Of Operation Green Hunt - When rape is routine and there's a paucity of condemning voices – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
‘We Will Teach India Democracy’: Indigenous Voices in Constitution Making (2023) (0)
India: In Bastar, it looks as if the failed Salwa Judum idea is being given a fresh lease of life – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
India: An account of a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
India: No room for ‘others' – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Introduction (2010) (0)
Efficiency and biodiversity - empirical evidence from Tanzania. (2005) (0)
The Indian University Today: Our Intellectual and Professional Obligations (2018) (0)
Book Reviews and Notices (1997) (0)
Non-state actors and the rule of law in Chhattisgarh – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Book reviews and notices : RITU MENON and KAMLA BHASIN, Borders and boundaries: Women in India's par tition. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998. xiii + 274 pp. Notes, appendices, index. Rs. 300 (hardback) (2000) (0)
From Delhi to Iran via America: Reflections of an Indian Anthropologist (2018) (0)
The Deployment of Resentment in Counterinsurgency (2019) (0)
Any Teacher can be a Counsellor: Role of Teachers in Guidance and Counselling (2023) (0)
Book Reviews : CHETAN SINGH, Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalaya, 1800-1950, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 252 (2000) (0)
Book Review: Asoka Kumar Sen. 2018. Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India (2019) (0)

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