Dr. Gajula Raju, Research Officer of Dr. Ambedkar Chair in Social Justice and Empowerment of Tribal Population, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Lalpur, Amarkantak. He has pursued M.A. (O.U.), M.Phil., Ph.D., PGDTSH (UoH), B.Ed. (DBHP Sabha) at Hyderabad. He has having 8 years of experience in research, teaching in Dalit – Adivasi Studies of Literature, Culture and tradition. His teaching and research interests have been Socio-literary and cultural History of India with the special reference of Historical aspects of Indian Caste system and in terms of social equality. He worked on transformation of culture, tradition literature and languages of various tribes in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. A special focus on Gonds tribes of Telangana who were the origins of the tribal communities. He focused and worked on their language and script which called as now “Gunjala Gondi Script”. He translated stories of Gonds in to Telugu and Hindi. He was the part of making Gunjala Gond Primers for 1st and 2nd class. He has been organized workshops for Gonds, Koyas and Chenchu tribes. He has been worked Five years in the field of Dalit & Adivasi Studies and their Language and Culture. His experience of teaching in Centre for Dalit & Adivasi Studies and Translation for five years. He has been teaching in the areas of Dr. Ambedkar philosophy, History of Tribal literature and research methodology of Dalit-Adivasi studies. Accordingly he has authored a book “Upanyaskar Satyaprakash ke Upanyas mein Dalit Samasyayein” and co-editor of a book “Adivasi Vimarsh” which based on Sociology of Dalits and Cultural Study of Indian Tribes in Hindi language. He has been published more than 12 research publications in National journals of Hindi and he presented 14 research papers. He has been engaged as resource person for number of academic endeavors including National and International level seminars in India. He visited Study Tour to U.S.A. on the occasion of 125th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Babasahed Ambedkar. He has been awarded “Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Fellowship Award – 2015” from Bharatiya Dalit Sahitya Academy, New Delhi. He was one of the subject expert for the five day workshop on “Preparation of Trilingual Glossary (English-Hindi-Telugu)” Conducted by Commission for Scientific & Technical Terminology, MHRD, Government of India, New Delhi. He has been conducted several workshops and seminars for tribes, school teachers and scholars of the university. He has participated in orientation and faculty improvement programs in different Institutions..