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.
She is currently working on citizenship, war and counterinsurgency as well as on indigenous identity and politics in India. Her teaching and research interests include political sociology, the sociology of law and human rights, social stratification, the sociology of work, development theory and practice, and intellectual history.
Select Publications
Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological history of Bastar 1854-2006, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007 (2nd edition), (1st edition 1997, OIP 1999).
Gunda Dhur Ki Talash Mein. Penguin Yatra Books 2009
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).
Links to select articles (PDF format)
“Toward an Anthropology of Culpability.” In American Ethnologist, 31 (2), 2004, 145-163.
“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.
“Forest Society and Colonialism.” In India and the Contemporary World. Textbook in History for Class IX. Delhi: NCERT.