Three Villages, Two Investigations, and the Rule of Law in India

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 recently published by Juggernaut Press. 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.

This event forms part of a series on Political Subjectivities and Popular Protest sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and organized by the African Studies Center and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. See more at: https://www.ii.umich.edu/asc/initiatives/ahi/mellon-workshops.html