Nandini Sundar
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Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her recent publications include,
The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar (Verso 2019, Juggernaut Press, 2016); an edited volume,
The Scheduled Tribes and their India (OUP, 2016);
Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development (co-edited with Aparna Sundar, Sage 2014); andInequality and Social Mobility in Post-Reform India, Special Issue of
Contemporary South Asia (co-edited with Ravinder Kaur, 2016). She has also authored
Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar (2nd ed. 2007); co-authored
Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (2001), edited
Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand (2009), and co-edited
Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology (2007). She was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (Social Anthropology) in 2010, the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research, 2016 and the Malcolm Adiseshiah Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, 2017.