{"id":3312,"date":"2018-08-10T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T13:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2018-08-14T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:28:56","slug":"nandini-sundar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/nandini-sundar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandini Sundar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/nandini-sundar\/img_6345-cropped\/#main\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_6345-cropped-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_6345-cropped-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/08\/IMG_6345-cropped.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.\u00a0Her recent publications include,\u00a0<i>The Burning Forest: India\u2019s War in Bastar<\/i>\u00a0(Verso 2018);\u00a0an edited volume,\u00a0<i>The Scheduled Tribes and their India<\/i>\u00a0(OUP, 2016);\u00a0<i>Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development<\/i>\u00a0(co-edited with Aparna Sundar, Sage 2014); and\u00a0Inequality and Social Mobility in Post-Reform India, Special Issue of\u00a0<i>Contemporary South Asia<\/i>\u00a0(co-edited with Ravinder Kaur, 2016).\u00a0\u00a0She has also authored\u00a0<i>Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar<\/i>\u00a0(2nd ed. 2007); co-authored\u00a0<i>Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India<\/i>\u00a0(2001), edited\u00a0<i>Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand<\/i>\u00a0 (2009), and co-edited\u00a0<i>Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology<\/i>\u00a0(2007).\u00a0Sundar was editor of\u00a0<i>Contributions to Indian Sociology<\/i>\u00a0from 2007-2011 and has served on the boards of several journals, research institutions and government committees. 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<span class=\"m_-2162754996675332837ydpe808b212yshortcuts\"><u>.\u00a0<\/u><\/span>Sundar has been engaged in human rights litigation over the last decade. She writes regularly for the media on contemporary issues, and her writing is available at\u00a0<span class=\"m_-2162754996675332837ydpe808b212yshortcuts\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nandinisundar.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/nandinisundar.blogspot.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534196667940000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH4ozSMGrtqth8zkgP032OqzSq7vQ\">https:\/\/nandinisundar.blogspot.<wbr \/>com<\/a><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.\u00a0Her recent publications include,\u00a0The Burning Forest: India\u2019s War in Bastar\u00a0(Verso 2018);\u00a0an edited volume,\u00a0The Scheduled Tribes and their India\u00a0(OUP, 2016);\u00a0Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development\u00a0(co-edited with&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/nandini-sundar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-11-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}