Nandini Sundar 
is Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University,
and Co-editor, Contributions to Indian Sociology. She has previously
worked at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and the University of
Edinburgh.
Her
publications include Subalterns and Sovereigns: An
Anthropological History of Bastar (2nd ed. OUP 2007), published in Hindi as
Gunda Dhur Ki Talash Mein (Penguin
2009), and Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (OUP 2001).
She is editor of Legal Grounds: Natural
Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand (OUP
2009) and also co-editor of Anthropology
in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology (Permanent
Black 2007), and A New Moral Economy for India's Forests: Discourses of
Community and Participation (Sage Publications, 1999).
Her
current teaching and research interests include citizenship, war and
counterinsurgency in South Asia, indigenous identity and politics in India, the
sociology of law, and inequality.
Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological
history of Bastar 1854-2006, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007 (2nd
edition), (1st edition 1997, OIP 1999).
Extracts
from reviews of Subalterns and Sovereigns.doc
Gunda
Dhur Ki Talash Mein. Penguin Yatra Books, 2009
Anthropology in the East: The founders of
Indian sociology and anthropology (edited with Patricia Uberoi and
Satish Deshpande), New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007.
Branching
out: Joint Forest Management in India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000
(with Roger Jeffery and Neil Thin)
A
New Moral Economy for India’s Forests: Discourses of Community and
Participation, New Delhi, Sage, 1999 (with Roger Jeffery).
A New Moral Economy for India.doc
Legal
Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand, New Delhi,
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Links to select articles
“Toward
an Anthropology of Culpability.” In American
Ethnologist, 31 (2), 2004, 145-163.
“Caste as Census
Category: Implications for Sociology.” In Current Sociology, 48 (3),
2000, 111-126.
Democracy
versus Economic Transformation?: A Response to Partha
Chatterjee’s Democracy and Economic Transformation in India. Economic and Political Weekly, November
18 2008 (with Amita Baviskar)
Education
“Teaching to hate: The RSS’s Pedagogical Program.” In Tom Ewing ed. Revolution and Pedagogy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005,
195-218.
“Indigenise, Nationalise
and Spiritualise: An Agenda for Education?” In International
Social Science Journal, 173, September 2002, 373-383.
Forests
“Forest Society and Colonialism.” In India and the Contemporary World. Textbook in History for Class IX. Delhi: NCERT.
“Is Devolution Democratisation”. In World Development, 29 (12),
2001, 2007-2024.
“Unpacking
the `Joint' in Joint Forest Management.” In Development
and Change, 31, 2000, 255-279.
Adivasi Politics and
Culture
“Debating Dussehra
and Reinterpreting Rebellion in Bastar District, Central India.” In Journal
of the Royal Anthropological Society, 7 (1), 2001, 19-35.
“Divining Evil: The State and Witchcraft in
Bastar”. In Journal of Gender, Technology and
Development, 5 (3), 2001, 425-448.
Anthropology
“The Dilemmas of
“Working” Anthropology in Twenty-first-Century India.” In Les W. Field
and Richard G. Fox eds. Anthropology Put to Work, Oxford, Berg
Publishers, 2007, pp.181-200.
“In the cause of
anthropology: the life and work of Irawati Karve.” In Patricia Uberoi, Satish
Deshpande and Nandini Sundar (eds) Anthropology in the East: The founders of
Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007.
“Missing
the Ethical Woods for the Bureaucratic Trees”. American
Ethnologist, Vol. 33, Number 4, November 2006, 535-537.