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Title Dr. First Meena Last Radhakrishna Photograph Name Name Designation Associate Professor Department Sociology Address (Campus) Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, Delhi 110 007 (Residence) B2/36, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi 110 029 Phone No (Campus) 27667858 (Residence)optional 26191308 Mobile Fax Email [email protected] Web-Page Education Subject Institution Year Details MA (Sociology) University of Bombay 1985 First Division PhD (Sociology) University of Bombay 1990
Career Profile
Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role
Department of Sociology Associate 4 years Teaching Professor Department of Sociology, Reader 4 years Teaching DU Nehru Memorial and UGC Research 5 years Research Library Associate Nehru Memorial and Senior ICHR 2 years Research Library Fellow I.I.T Delhi Visiting Faculty 2 years Teaching Stella Maris College Lecturer 1 year Teaching Research Interests / Specialization
Nomadic and Denotified communities; colonial anthropology; indigenous and mobile people; issues and policies relating to social discrimination Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught)
At IIT, New Delhi:
Rethinking the Indian Tradition
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At Sociology Department, DU :
for MA (Final) classes: Sociology of Development Social Stratification Urban Sociology Industrial Sociology
For M Phil classes: Historical Sociology Sociology of Development Social Discrimination and Subalterneity: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Publications (LAST FIVE YEARS) Books / Monographs
Year of Title Publisher Co-Author Publication 2009 Aitihasic Nalbandi, (in Marathi) A Econet, Pune compilation of recent research papers translated from English
2008, Dishonoured by History: “Criminal Tribes 2001 and British Colonial Policy‖ (revised Orient paperback version with a new Preface and Blackswan a new chapter as an Afterword in 2008 edition)
In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals
Year of Title Journal Co-Author Publication
2010 Artha Vijnana: ‘Invented Pasts and Fabricated Journal of the Presents:Text of Kunda Datar Memorial Gokhale Institute Lecture‘ of Politics and Economics, December 2009, Vol LI No. 4, released in June, 2010. 2009 ‗Starvation among Primitive Tribal Groups‘ Economic and Political weekly, vol xliv no 18, May 2, 2009 2008 ‗Stratification among the Disadvantaged: Indian Journal Identifying the Rock-bottom Layers‘ of Industrial Relations, Special Issue on Affirmative
2 Action edited by Meghnad Desai, October, 2008 2008 ‗Crime of Vigilante Justice‘ Economic & Political Weekly, January 12, 2008 2007 ‗Urban Denotified Tribes: Competing Economic & Identities, Contested Citizenship‘ Political Weekly, December 22, 2007 2007 ‗Civil Society‘s Uncivil Acts: Dancing Bear Economic and and Starving Kalandar‘ Political Weekly, October 20, 2007
Articles
‗Thought for Food: Starvation among Forest-dependent Communities‘ in Dev Nathan and Virginius Xaxa (eds.) Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Deprivation of Adivasis in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012 (Revised and republished from EPW, 2009)
'Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolutionary Science and Colonial Ethnography' in Biswomoy Pati (ed), Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival, Resistance and Negotiation, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011 (Revised and republished from IHR, 2006)
‗Laws of Metamorphosis: From Nomad to Offender‘ in Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir Singh (eds.), Challenging the Rules(s) of Law : Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India, Sage Publications, 2008
‗Race in History‘ in Historiography: Approaches to History in Modern Times – 2, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi Open University, April, 2005
Conference Presentations in last five years:
1. Expert, Meeting of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Working Group on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi, August, 13, 2012.
2. Mahatma Phule Memorial Lecture, University of Pune, February 8, 2012
3. Presentations, Steering Committee on the Empowerment of the Scheduled Tribes for the Formulation of XIIth Five Year Plan (2012-17), Room no. 122, Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi, October 18, 2011 and September 13, 2011
4. Presentation of final report, Working Group on Other Backward Classes, Nomadic, Semi- nomadic and Denotified Tribes and Economically Backward Classes for the Twelfth Five Year Pan, (2012-17) , Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, held at Committee Room C, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, New Delhi, September 29, 2011
5. Expert, Presentations to the Working Group on Other Backward Classes, Nomadic, Semi- nomadic and Denotified Tribes and Economically Backward Classes for the Twelfth Five Year Pan, (2012-17) , Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Committee Room A, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, New Delhi, September 5, 2011, June 2, 2011 and May 5, 2011
6. Expert, National Advisory Council (NAC) Meeting on Denotified Tribes, NAC Conference Hall, 2, Motilal Nehru Place, Akbar Road, Opp. Lal Bahadur Sastri Memorial, July 28, 2011
3 7. Presentation, Second National Consultation on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, organized by National Advisory Council (NAC), July 13, 2011
8. Chairperson and Moderator, Meetings of the Subgroup-II on Social, Educational and Economic Empowerment of Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, held at National Backward Classes Finance and Dev. Corporation, 5th Floor, NCUI Building, 3 Siri Institutional Area, Khel Gaon Marg, New Delhi-110016, held on July 8, 2011; June 20, 2011; June 2, 2011
9. Presentation, First National Consultation on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, National Advisory Council, organized by the National Advisory Council (NAC), Conference Hall, 2, Motilal Nehru Place, Akbar Road, Opp. Lal Bahadur Sastri Memorial, May 11 2011
10. Main Resource Person, National Advisory Group (NAC) Working Group on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes to Prepare Background Paper on DNTs , Committee Room (Room 134), Yojana Bhavan, Parliament Street, New Delhi, May 2, 2011 and April 18, 2011
11. Presentation, Meeting of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Working Group on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, National Advisory Council office, NAC Conference Hall, 2, Motilal Nehru Place, Akbar Road, Opp. Lal Bahadur Sastri Memorial, April 13, 2011
12. Presentation, Workshop on Guidelines for Inclusion of SC/ST in Business, , Civil Service Officers Institute, Kasturba Gandhi March, organised by NACDOR, New Delhi, August 28, 2010
13. 'FRA and the so called Traditional Hunting Communities: Some Urgent Issues' in a National Seminar on The Scheduled Tribals And Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition Of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: Problems encountered in implementation and ways to overcome them, IIC auditorium, April 26 and 27, 2010, Council for Social Development, IIC Annexe, New Delhi, April 26, 2010.
14. Keynote Address in a National Seminar on ―Tribal situation in India: A comparative perspective‖, Department of History, Osmania University, Hyderabad, March 23rd-24th, 2010
15. ‗Of Lives and Livelihoods: Nomadic Communities Search for Utopia‘ in an international conference on ―Expanding the Frontiers of Labour History‖, 18th-20th March, 2010, organized by the Association of Indian Labour Historians with VV Giri National Labour Institute, New Delhi, March 18, 2010
16. ‗Differentiating between Nomadism and Migration: A concept note‘ at the Regional Consultation on Gender and Migration Project, organized by Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, Noronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal, February 12, 2010
17. Conducted a half day workshop on ―The Colonial and the Contemporary: Indian denotified and nomadic communities‖, Training Programme for all India Senior Police Officers, RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal, February 11, 2010
18. Panelist for Discussion on 'Opportunities and Challenges of Non Pastoral Nomadic Communities (NT/DNT) and need of Research‘, Centre for the Study of Social Discrimination and Exclusion, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, December 10, 2009
19. Kunda Datar Memorial Lecture, ―Invented pasts and Fabricated Presents‖ Kale Auditorium, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, December 09, 2009
20. ―Current situation of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Northern States‖, Planning Commission Consultative Group on Empowerment of STs for midterm appraisal of the Eleventh
4 Five Year Plan, Calcutta, November 25, 2009
21. ―Current situation of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Southern States‖, Planning Commission Consultative Group on Empowerment of STs for midterm appraisal of the Eleventh Five Year Plan, Hyderabad, November 18, 2009
22. ―Perceptions, Policies and Practices : hunting communities as "Criminal Tribes‖in an International Workshop entitled Livelihoods and the Environment: Debating Inter- disciplinary perspectives, October 15-16, 2009 organised by Centre for Studies in Science Policy, (JNU), Department Of History (University of Delhi) and the Department of History ( Uppsala University), JNU, New Delhi, October 16, 2009.
23. Chairperson and discussant, Session II - The World of the Tribals, in 'Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand' (A conference in memory of Papiya Ghosh), 8-9 October, 2009, Banga Sanskriti Bhawan, New Delhi, October 8, 2009
24. ―Thought for Food: Primitive Tribal Groups and Starvation Deaths‖ in an International Seminar on Adivasi/ST Communities in India: Development And Change, August 27-29, 2009, organised by Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi and supported by Planning Commission, Government of India, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and UNICEF, August 27, 2009
25. ―The Marginalized among the Marginalized‖ in Specialist Conference on Assessing the Marginalisation of Dalits in Economy and Private Sector organized by National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), August 10-11, 2009, India International Centre, New Delhi, August 10, 2009
26. ―Human Rights violations, Tag of Criminality: Engaging with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment‖ in Chalking Out a Road Map For Intervention On Issues And Concerns Of Nt-Dnt Communities, orgainised by Econet, IIC, New Delhi, July 18, 2009
27. ―Social Exclusion of Denotified Tribes: Historical Context and Democratic Response‖ in a seminar on ―Increasing Dalits‘ Stake and Space in Economy and Civil Society‖, organised by National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Community Centre, Nehru Vihar, Delhi, June19, 2009
28. ―The Hunter and the Hunted: Nomadic Communities and Indian Conservation Strategies‖ at an international conference on Terrestrial Environments and their Histories in Modern India, May 1- 2, 2009, organized by South Asian Studies Council and the MacMillan Center, Anthropology Department, Yale University, May 2, 2009
29. Distinguished Lecture Series, lecture entitled ―Tribes of the criminal kind, Tribes of the criminal mind...Denotified Communities and State Policy in India‖ in the of the South Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 27, 2009.
30. "Revisiting the 'Criminal Tribes' of India” under South Asia Colloquium‘s themed occasional series called ‗Classicism/Anti-Classicism‘, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 23, 2009.
31. Interview in Hindi conducted by National Conference for Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Theme - Livelihood, Title - Lives of Nomadic Tribes, One World South Asia (Community Radio) at All India Radio, 3-4 pm, August 22, 2008
32. ―Current Status of Denotified Tribes‖ at the National Consultation on Status and Future Course of
5 Action in Relation to the Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic Tribes in India, organized by Oxfam and Social Development Research Institute, Constitution Club, Vallabhbhai Patel House, New Delhi, April 10 – 11, 2008
33. Keynote address, National seminar on ‗The Impact of Criminal Tribes Act on Society: Yesterday, Today and Days to Come‘ organised by Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar Chair at Madurai Kamaraj University, March 26, 2008
34. ―Usettled People, Unsettled Issues: State, Civil society and Nomadic Communities‖ in the workshop on Political Ecology, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, March 6-7, 2008
35. Panelist, Technical Session II on Social Exclusion, ‗Equity and Inclusion – Possibilities & Challenges before Civil Society Organizations‘, National Conference on 'What it Takes to Eradicate Poverty", organized by PACS Management Consultants Development Alternatives and PricewaterhouseCoopers, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, December 4-6, 2007
36. 'City/Citizenship: A Story of Banishment', at "Conceptions of Justice in Asia", Third International Congress, Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), University of Delhi, 23- 25 November 2007
37. Panelist, Round Table 1, ‗Social Exclusion and Discrimination: Towards Inclusive Society‘, in Round Tables on Dalits, organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, November 2-4, 2007
38. Key Speaker, Plenary Session, International Conference on 'Ethnographic Discourse of the Other' University of Hyderabad, India, jointly Organised by School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, at School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, July 3, 2007.
39. Chairperson, Academic Session I titled 'Theory and Practice of Ethnography', International Conference on 'Ethnographic Discourse of the Other', University of Hyderabad, jointly organised by School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, at School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, July 3, 2007.
Total Publication Profile optional
Books
2 In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals
6 Articles
4 Conference Presentations
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6 Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity
Expert, National Advisory Council (NAC) Working Group on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), 2012 -- Member, Steering Committee on Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes for the formulation of the 12th Plan (2012-2017) Member, Working Group on Empowerment of the Nomadic, Semi nomadic and denotified tribes for the formulation of the Twelfth plan (2012-2017) Chairperson, Sub group II, Social, Educational and Economic Empowerment of DNTs, 2011 Member, Task Force to Re-examine and Revise the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub Plan Guidelines, 2010 Chairperson, Sub committee on ―Primitive Tribal Groups‖, and Member, Consultative Group on Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes for Midterm Appraisal of the Eleventh Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, GoI, July, 2009 onwards Director (Research), National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes, Ministry of Social Justice, Government of India, 2007-08 Expert, National Commission for Denotified, Noamdic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, November, 2006 -- January, 2007. Member, Technical Advisory Group, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India August—October, 2006 Member, Advisory Committee on Field Studies in Sociology of Education, NCERT, 2005-6
Professional Societies Memberships
Life Member, Indian Sociological Society
Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations)
Urban and Forest Nomadic Tribes: Contemporary Issues and Concerns (research project funded by DU)
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