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th on 05 January, 2017 (Thursday, 4:00 PM) at 105 Himalaya Building (Auditorium), IIIT Hyderabad Speaker Prof. Nandini Sundar ‘Not human, not animal’: does India have room for the adivasi? Announces Distinguished Lecture on 3.45 PM Registration and Welcome Program 4.00 PM Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Nandini Sundar 5.30 PM Tea & Snacks Prof. Harjinder Singh E-mail: [email protected] Ph: +91 40 66531304 (off) +91 9966878063 (cell) RSVP: About the Speaker: Nandini Sundar, is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her book, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar was published by Juggernaut Press in 2016. Her previous publications include Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar (2nd ed. 2007; translated in Hindi as Gunda Dhur Ki Talash Mein, 2009), and (co‐authored) Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (2001). Her edited volumes include The Scheduled Tribes and their India (OUP, 2016) Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development, (Sage 2014, co‐edited with Aparna Sundar); Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand (OUP 2009), and Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology (Permanent Black, 2007, coedited). She serves on the boards of several journals. In 2010, she was awarded the INFOSYS Prize for Social Sciences ‐ Social Anthropology, and in 2016, the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research. Her public writings are available at http://nandinisundar.blogspot.com.
