Nandini Sundar

Brief Introduction: Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests include democracy and constitutionalism, law and inequality, academic freedom and agrarian ecologies. She is currently writing a biography of the Adivasi leader Jaipal Singh. The Burning Forest: India’s War against Maoists (Verso 2019, Juggernaut pb 2022) has been translated into Hindi, (Davanal), Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati. Her previous books include Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar (2nd ed. OUP 2007); and the co-authored Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (OUP 2001). She has also edited Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand (OUP 2009), The Scheduled Tribes and their India (OUP, 2016); and co-edited A New Moral Economy for India’s Forests (Sage 1999), Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology (Permanent Black 2007), Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development (Sage 2014), Inequality and Social Mobility in Post-Reform India, Special Issue of Contemporary South Asia (2016), Reading India: Selections from Economic and Political Weekly 1991-2017 (Orient Blackswan 2019) and A Functioning Anarchy: Essays for Ramachandra Guha (Penguin 2021). She is currently on the editorial/scientific advisory boards of several journals including Current Sociology, Sociology, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Dialectical Anthropology, HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, and INSEE (Ecology, Economy, Society). She was awarded the M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize, 2003, Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (Social Anthropology) 2010, the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research, 2016 and the Malcolm Adiseshiah Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, 2017. Her media articles and interviews are available at http://nandinisundar.blogspot.com, and academic articles on https://du-in.academia.edu/NandiniSundar