Surinder S. Jodhka
Professor of Sociology,
Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
School of Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067.
jodhka@mail.jnu.ac.in ,
ssjodhka@yahoo.com
Phones: +91-11-26704431 (work) 26741451 (home) 9811279898 (cell)
Education:
M.A. (1985); M.Phil. (1987); Ph.D. (1991) all in Sociology.
Work experience:
Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi (2006-).
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi (2001-2006).
Reader, Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1998-2001)
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (1991-1998)
Associate Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat (1990-1991).
Areas of Specialization:
Social Stratification; Dalit Studies; Religious Minorities
Rural Society and Agrarian Change in Contemporary India;
Sociology of Development;
Contemporary Punjab; Social and Cultural Identities.
International Fellowships/Distinctions:
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow: QUB, Belfast April-June 1996.
South Asian Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford: January- June 1997.
Visiting Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison: January-June 2002.
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway. May-June 2005.
Member International Advisory Board of Sociology, official journal of the British Sociological Association (2004-2008).
Member Editorial Board of Sikh Formations, Routledge, London (since 2005).
Member, ‘The Global Network on Inequality’, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
Country Coordinator, Religions and Development Research Programme (DFID- University of Birmingham)
Member editorial board of Social Change, a social science research journal published by Council for Social Development, New Delhi. 2008-09
Member Editorial Advisory Committee, Sociological Bulletin, Journal of the Indian Sociological Society. 2008
Research Publications:
Books: 4
Research Papers and Book Chapters: 60+
Book Reviews: 65+
Popular Articles: 2
List of Publications:
Books:
Religions, Communities, Development: Changing Contours of Policy and Politics in Contemporary India (edited with Gurpreet Mahajan): New Delhi: Routledge South Asia.
Contested Transformations: Changing Economies and Identities in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Tulika Press (edited with Mary E. John and Praveen Jha), 2006Community and Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India (edited) New Delhi: Sage Publications 2001.
Debt, Dependence and Agrarian Change. Jaipur: Rawat Publishing House, 1995.
Series Editor: Religion and Citizenship. Routledge South Asia.
Research Papers in Journals and Book Chapters:
‘Dalits in Business: Self-Employed Scheduled Castes in North-West India’ Economic & Political Weekly. Volume 45 (11) pp. 41-48 March 13-19, 2010
‘Caste and Politics’ in Nirja Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta ed. Oxford Companion to Politics in India Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2010
‘Marginalization and Return: Agrarian Studies in India during the 1990s’ in Ishwar Modi, B.K. Nagla and A.K Agarwal eds ‘Themes in Social Stratification and Mobility’ Jaipur: Rawat Publications. Pp. 293-314 (with Paul D’ Souza)
‘Institutionalizing Equality: Contexts and Meanings of Equal Opportunity Commission’ Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 297-304. 2009
‘The Problem’. Introduction to special issue Seminar on India’s Religious Minorities. Number 602. pp. 12-4. October 2009
‘What makes Sikhs a minority’ in Seminar number 602. pp. 76-9. October 2009
‘Religions, Democracy and Governance: Spaces for the Marginalized in Contemporary India’ (with Gurpreet Mahajan), Working paper 26, Religions and Development, University of Birmingham (http://www.rad.bham.ac.uk/index.php?section=47)
Rural and Agrarian Studies (with Paul D’Souza) in Yogesh Atal ed. Sociology and Social Anthropology in India (ICSSR Srvey of Advances in Research). New Delhi: Pearson Longman and Indian Council of Social Science Research. Pp.50-117. 2009
‘Sikhs in Contemporary Times: Religious Identities and Discourses of Development’ Sikh Formations, Volume 5, Issue 1 June 2009, Pp1 – 22. 2009
‘The Ravi Dasis of Punjab: Global Contours of Caste and Religious Strife’ Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIV (24) June 13. pp. 79-85. 2009
‘Caste and the Corporate Sector’ The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations. Volume 44 (2): 185-93. October 2008.
‘The Decline of Agriculture’ in S. K. Bhaumik ed. Reforming Indian Agriculture: Towards Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2008.
Changing Caste and Local Democracy in David Gellner and Krishna Hachhethu eds Local Democracy in south Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2008.
‘Of Babas and Deras’. Seminar (No. 581), January pp. 54-7. 2008
‘Internal Classification of Scheduled Castes: The Punjab Story’. Economic and Political Weekly. October 27,. pp 20-3. (with Avinash Kumar). 2007
‘Beyond Culture and Agriculture: Agrarian Change and Caste Conflict in Rural Punjab’. In Hiroshi Ishii, David Gellner and Katsuo Nawa eds. Political and social Transformations in North Indian and Nepal. Delhi: Manohar. Pp. 31-62. 2007
‘In the Name of Globalisation: Meritocracy, Productivity and the Hidden Language of Caste’ (with Katherine Newman). Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 42 (41). Pp 4125-32. October 13 - October 19, 2007
‘The Other Side of Development: Poverty, Bondage and Marginalisation of the Rural Underclass’. Economic and Political Weekly VOL 42 No. 39 September 29 - October 05. pp. 3926-9. 2007
‘Perceptions and Receptions: Sachar Committee and Secular Left’. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XLII (29) pp. 2996-9. 2007
‘Who Will Speak for the Village? Agrarian Change and Marginalizing Ruralities in Contemporary India’. Occasional Paper Series. Department of Sociology, University of Pune. March 2007.
‘The Problem’, Re-Imagining Punjab: A Symposium of the Changing Contours of Region in the Age of Globalization. November (issue 567). 2006.‘Interrogating Caste and Religion in India’s Emerging Middle-Class’ with N.J. Demerath Lll. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XLI (35). Pp. 3813-8. 2006.
‘Beyond ‘Crises’: Rethinking Contemporary Punjab Agriculture’. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XLI (16). Pp. 1530-7. 2006.
‘Caste and Democracy: Assertion and Identity among the Dalits of Rural Punjab’. Sociological Bulletin. Volume 55(1). pp.4-23. 2006
Reproduced as ‘Changing Caste and Local Democracy: Assertion and Identity Among the Dalits of Rural Punjab’ in David Gellner and Krishna Hachhethu eds. Local Democracy in south Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours. New Delhi: Sage 2008‘Regions and Communities: Social Identities in Contemporary Punjab’ in Rajendra Vora and Anne Feldhaus ed. Region, Culture, and Politics in India. Delhi: Manohar.. pp. 299-316. 2006
‘Nation, Anthropology and the Village’ in S.M. Dahiwale ed. Understanding Indian Society: The Non-Brahmanic Perspective. Jaipur: Rawat Publications. Pp. 51-85. 2005‘Return of the Region: Identities and Electoral Politics in Punjab’. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XL (3). Pp. 224-30. 2005.
‘Unfree Labour and ‘Postmodern Myths’: Towards a Critical Examination’, Historical Materialism, volume 12 (4). Pp. 463-72) (Review Article). 2004.
‘Dissociation, Distancing and Autonomy: Caste and Untouchability in Rural Punjab’ in Harish K. Puri ed. Dalits in Regional Context. Jaipur: Rawat Publications. 2004
‘Sikhism and the caste question: Dalits and their politics in contemporary Punjab’ in Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) Volume 23 (1&2). pp.165-92. 2004.
Reproduced in Dipankar Gupta ed. Caste in Question: Identity or Hierarchy. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2004.
‘Agrarian Structures and their Transformations’ in Veena Das ed. Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. (Volume II) Delhi: New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003.Reproduced in Handbook of Indian Sociology edited by Veena Das. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004
‘Measuring Agrarian Classes: A Note’. IASSI Quarterly, Vol. 21, (2). Pp 97-101. 2002 (published in December 2003).
‘Caste Conflict and Dalit Identity in Rural Punjab: Significance of Talhan’ (with Prakash Louis). Social Action. Vol 53 (October-December) 335-59. 2003.
‘Contemporary Punjab: A Brief Introduction’ in M.S. Gill ed. Punjab Society: Perspectives and Challenges. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. 2003.
‘The Scheduled Castes in Contemporary Punjab’ in M.S. Gill edited Punjab Society: Perspectives and Challenges. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. 2003.
‘Caste Tensions in Punjab: Talhan and Beyond’ (with Prakash Louis). Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XXXVIII (28) July 12. pp. 2923-6. (comment). 2003.
‘Cow, Caste and Communal Politics’ (with Murli Dhar) Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 38 (3). January 18. pp. 174-6. 2003
‘Nation and Village: Images of Rural India in Gandhi, Nehru and Ambedkar’. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 37 (32) August 10. Pp. 3343-54. 2002.
‘Making of the cultural difference: identity formation among the Sikhs in Punjab’ Mapping Multiculturalism edited by Kushal Deb. New Delhi, Rawat, 2002.‘Caste and Untouchability in Rural Punjab’ Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 37 (19) May 11. pp. 1813-23. 2002
‘Caste in the Periphery’ Seminar No. 508. December. Pp. 41-6. (Special issue on Exclusion). 2001
‘Crisis, Crisis, Crisis….Rural Indebtedness and Farmers’ Suicides in the Post Green Revolution Punjab (India)’. International Journal of Punjab Studies. Vol. 8 (1). Pp.117-26. (Review Article). 2001
‘Minority Status for Sikhs in Punjab: What Does it Mean?’ Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XXXVI (18) May 5. Pp. 1497-8. 2001.
‘Looking Back at the Khalistan Movement: Some Recent Researches on its Rise and Decline. (Review-Article). Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XXXVI (16) April 21. Pp. 1311-18. 2001.
‘Marginalisation of Punjab’. Seminar, annual number 497. January. Pp. 69-74. 2001
‘The Sikh Identity in a Historical Perspective’ in M. Ramakrishnayya ed. Historical Memories and Nation Building in India. Hyderabad: Booklinks Corporation. Pp. 146-62. 2001.
‘Prejudice without Pollution?: Scheduled Castes in Contemporary Punjab’
Journal of Indian School of Political Economy (special issue on Scheduled Castes edited by Andre Beteille). Vol. XII (3&4) pp. 381-402) 2000.‘Punjab: Decline of identity politics’ (comment), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXV, no. 11. March 11-17. 2000.
‘Return of the Middle Class’, Seminar, a special issue on ‘the Sikh Spirit’, April No. 476. 1999.
‘Patriarchy as a ‘Natural Order’: Constructions of Caste and Gender in the Indian Village Studies’. Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. VI (2), Winter. Pp. 119-139. 1999.
‘Haryana: Change of Government and Beyond’ (comment), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIV(32), August 7. 1999.
‘Community and Identities: Interrogating Contemporary Discourses on India’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXIV, no.41, October 9, 1999.
‘Agrarian Change and Debt Dependecies: Emerging Patterns in Haryana Agriculture’ in P.S. Judge and S. K. Sharma ed. Dimensions of Social Change, Jaipur, Rawat 1998.
‘Attached Labour in Haryana’ in J.S. Grewal and Indu Banga ed. Punjab in Prosperity and Violence, Chandigarh, Institute of Punjab Studies. 1998.
‘From ‘Book-View’ to ‘Field-View’: Social Anthropological: Constructions of the Indian Village’, Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 26 (3). Pp. 311-32. 1998.
‘Crisis of the 1980s and Changing Agenda of ‘Punjab Studies’: A Survey of Some Recent Research’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXII(6). Review- Article. 1997. pp. 273-79
‘Interpreting Attached Labour in Contemporary Haryana’ (discussion), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXI (29). 1996.
‘IRDP and Changing Agrarian Relations: A Study of the Unintended Consequences’, Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 14(1). 1995.
‘Bureaucratisation, Corruption and Depoliticisation: Changing Profile of Credit Co-operatives in Rural Haryana’ Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXX(1). 1995.
‘Who Borrows? Who Lends?: Changing Structure of Informal Credit in Rural Haryana’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXX(39). 1995. A123-32.
Agrarian Changes, Unfreedom and Attached Labour’ (discussion), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXX (31-32). 1995.‘Agrarian Changes and Attached Labour: Emerging Patterns in Haryana Agriculture’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXIX (39). 1994.
Institutional Credit and Agrarian Changes in Haryana: A Comparative Study of Co-operative Credit Societies and Commercial Banks in Three Villages of Karnal District. Occasional Paper, Centre for Social Studies, Surat. 1992
‘Sikh Identity: A Brief Historical Outline’, Other Sociology, Vol. 1(1) 1989.
Popular Articles and Occasional Paper:
‘Muslim, in other words’. Indian Express, Delhi March 9, 2007.
‘Caste occupation divide gets sharper in Punjab: Agrarian technology has reshaped social relations’. The Tribune July 18. 2003.
Book Reviews (66):
‘Plural Histories of Sociology/ Social Anthropology’ Review of Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology edited by Patricia Uberoi and others. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 44: 17 April 25 - May 01, 2009
Reviews of Himadri Banerjee’s The Other Sikhs: A View from Eastern India and J.S. Grewal’s Social and Cultrual Hostory of the Punjab: Prehistoric, Ancient and Early Medieval. In The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 44.3. 2007
Review of Rural Capitalists in Asia: A Comparative analysis of India, Indonesia and Malaysia. Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.). Vol. 41(1) 2007: 114-16.
Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tami! Political Present by M.S.S. Pandian The Book Review. April 2007
Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity, by Doris R. Jakobsh, in Indian Economic and Social History Review Volume XLIII, Number 3, July - September 2006
The Sikhs in Canada: Migration, Race, Class and Gender by Gurcharn S. Basran and B. Singh Bolaria, Indian Economic and Social History Review. Volume XLIII, Number 2, April - June 2006
‘Realizing Brand India: The Changing Face of contemporary India’ edited by Sharif D. Rangnekar The Book Review. April 2006.‘Debates on Reservations’ review of Reservations and Private Sector: Quest for Equal Opportunity and Growth by Sukhadeo Thorat, Aryama and Prashant Negi (editors); Economic and Political Weekly Volume XXIX October 29
‘Religion and Public Domain’ review of Sociology of Religion in India edited by Rowena Robinson. The Book Review. Volume XXIX (5) 5 May 2005. page 16.
‘Cast in prejudice’ review of Political Sociology of Dalit Assertion by Prakash Louisin The Sunday Tribune. September 5, 2004.
‘The other side of IT’, review of Information Revolution and India: A Critique by S.S. Gill The Sunday Tribune. August 1 2004.
Review of Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas Stern, eds., Economic development in Palanpur over five decades. In Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) Volume 23 (1&2) 2004. pp. 282-5.
‘Diverse Indian diasporas’ review of Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora edited by Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh and Steven Vertovec. The Sunday Tribune February 29 2004.
‘Indian History and Sikh Studies’ review of Khalsa and the Punjab: Studies in Sikh History to the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Himadari Banerjee. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol XXXIX (2) January 10 2004.
Review of The Retreat to Unfreedom: Essays on the Emerging World Order by Prabhat Patnaik The Book Review volume XXVIII (2) February 2004.
Review Power, Politics and Rural Development: Essays on India by G.K. Lieten The Book Review volume XXVII (9) September 2003.
‘Of artificial ideological constructs’, review of Globaliztion, Hindu Nationalism and Christains in India by Lancy Lobo. The Sunday Tribune June 29 2003.
‘Revisiting Agrarian Bihar’, review of Social Power and Everyday Class Relations: Agrarian Transformation in North Bihar by Anand Chakravarty in Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. XXXVIII (23) June 7 2003.‘A Reader’ review of The Village in India edited by Vandana Madan in The Book Review volume XXVII (2) February 2003.
Review of Brien Axel’s book The Nation’s Tortured Body: Violence, Representation and Formation of a Sikh Diaspora in The Sunday Tribune June 9 2002.
‘Revisiting Agrarian Issues’ review of Land Reform and Peasant Livelihoods edited by Krishna B Ghimire; Green Revolution Reconsidered by Himmat Singh. Economic and Political Weekly, February 23, 2002.
Meanings of Dalit Identity Dalit Identity and Politics edited by Ghanshyam Shah. Economic and Political Weekly, March 30 2002.
‘Nation as a cultural construct’ review of Culture, Space and the Nation-State: From Sentiment to Structure by Dipankar Gupta in The Sunday Tribune December 2 2001
‘New perspective on Sikh studies’, review of C. Shackle, G. Singh and A.S. Mandair eds. Sikh Religion, Cultrue and Ethnicity in The Sunday Tribune, September 30 2001.
Review of Postcolonial developments: Agriculture in the making of modern India by Akhil Gupta in Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) Vol 35 (1). 2001.
‘The “nations” within a nation’ review of S.L. Sharma and T.K. Oommen ed. Nation and National Identity in South Asia in The Sunday Tribune, January 14 2001.
‘Why are Christians different?’ review of T.K. Oommen and H.M. Mambry The Christian Clergy in India: Social Structure and Social Roles in The Sunday Tribune, February 4 2001.
‘The red fall-out of green revolution’ review of Shinder Purewal’s Sikh Ethnonationalism and the Political Economy of Punjab in The Sunday Tribune, March 4 2001.
‘Reservation policy today: the hidden danger’ review of Contesting Reservations: The Indian Experience on Affirmative Action by Sagar Preet Hooda in The Sunday Tribune April 15 2001.
How scientific are social sciences? review of Methodology in Social Research: Dilemmas and Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Ramkrishna Mukherjee edited by Partha Nath Mukherji The Sunday Tribune May 20 2001.
‘Free market and unfree labour’ review of Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour: Case Studies and Debates by Tom Brass. The Sunday Tribune July 1 2001.
‘Genesis and tradition of Sikhs abroad’ review of The Sikh Diaspora: The Search for Statehood by Darshan Singh Tatla. The Sunday Tribune. August 19 2001.
‘Violence, and the varieties of it’, review of Barinder Pal Singh’s
Problems of Violence: Themes in Literature in The Sunday Tribune, January 9, 2000.‘Men are not essential here’, review of R. Wardhan’s Female Headed Households in Patriarchal Society: A Sociological Study in The Sunday Tribune, February 13, 2000.
‘Forests and tribals: not an idyllic link’, review of Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar ed. A New Moral Economy of India’s Forests? Discourses of Community and Participation in The Sunday Tribune, March 12, 2000.
Review of Growth with Equity: the new technology and agrarian change in Bengal by Abhijit Dasgupta in Contributions of Indian Sociology (n.s.) vol 34 (1) 2000.
‘Wanted: people-centred policies’ review of Ashish Kothari et.al. ed. Communities and Conservation: Natural Resource Management in South Central Asia in The Sunday Tribune, April 16, 2000.
‘Green nod to final exit’ review of Indebtedness, Impoverishment and Suicides in Rural Punjab by K.G. Iyer and M.S. Manick in The Sunday Tribune, May 21, 2000.
‘Colonial twist to development’ review of Post-colonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India by Akhil Gupta in The Sunday Tribune, June 18, 2000.
‘The built-in gender bias in society’ review of The Gender Gap in Education: NGOs as Change Agents ed. by Rekha Wazir in The Sunday Tribune August 13 2000.
‘Society, State and Power’ review of Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille by Ramachandra Guha and Jonathan Parry ed. Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XXXV (34) August 19 2000.
‘Caste: the other view’ review of Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in India Society by Dipankar Gupta’s in The Sunday Tribune. September 17 2000.
‘Hot money is hot threat’ review of Taming Global Financial Flows. Challenges and Alternatives in the Era of Financial Globalization: A Citizens Guide by Kavaljit Singh in The Sunday Tribune. October 1 2000.
‘Indian sociologists: why they are different?’ review of Chronicles of Our Time by Andre Beteille in The Sunday Tribune December 17 2000.
‘Akalis: Suba Struggle and Splits’, review of K.G. Lamba’s Dynamics of Punjabi Suba Movement and Kuldeep Kaur’s Splits and Mergers, in The Sunday Tribune, March 7, 1999.
‘When rural change speaks loudly’, review of Village Voice: Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India by T.S. Epstein et. al., The Sunday Tribune, May 9, 1999.
‘Mutinies and why neighbours stroke them’, review of Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Lessons from South Asia by Rajat Ganguly, The Sunday Tribune, June 20, 1999.
‘The City Beautiful acquires a soul’, review of Chandigarh Landscape: Brief Social History of a Planned City by Kavita Soni-Sharma et.al., The Sunday Tribune, August 1, 1999.
‘Warrior Roots of Jain’, review of The universe as Audience: Metaphor and Community among Jains of North India by Ravinder K. Jain, in The Sunday Tribune, November 7, 1999.
Review of B.L. Abbi and Kesar Singh, Post-green revolution rural Punjab: A profile of economic and social-cultural change (1965-95), in Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 33(1&2). 1999.
‘Where enemies of state spend their days’, review of Political Prisoners in India by Ujjwal Kumar Singh, OUP, in The Sunday Tribune, December, 12. 1999
Review of Sing C. Chew and Robert A Denemark, eds.The underdevelopment of development (Essays in Honour of Andre Gunder Frank), Thousand Oak, Sage, in Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 32,1 1998.
‘Jat Farmers and Their Politics’ review of Dipankar Gupta’s book Rivalry and Brotherhood in The Book Review, Vol. XXII(3) 1998.
Review of K.C. Mahanta ed. People of the Himalayas: Ecology, Culture, Development and Change in Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 47 (1) 1998.
‘To Migrate or to Stay’, review of J.L. Racine’s ed. Book Peasant Moorings: Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIII (49) 1998.
Review of M. Wolfe’s Elusive Development in Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 32, 2 1997.
Review of ‘A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia’ by Bina Agarwal in Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 52(1) 1997.
Understanding Exchange Relations in Indian Agriculture’, review of Wendy Olson’s book Rural Indian Social Relations in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. xxxii(19) 1997.Review of K.N.O. Dharmadasa’s (ed) book National Language Policy in Sri Lanka, 1956 to 1996: Studies in Implementation. ICES Occasional Papers 6 in Language Problems and Language Planning, Vol.21(3), Fall.
‘Unusual Sources, Conventional Questions: A History of Tenancy in South India’ review, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXI(19) 1996.
‘Beyond the Economics of Supply and Demand’ review, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXI(47) 1996,‘Land Reforms and Agrarian Changes in Karnataka’ review Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXX(29)1995.
‘Towards a Sociology of Indian Development: Some Critical Comments on Tradition and Development by S.C. Dube’, Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology, Vol.15(1) 1994.‘Culture and Development’ review, Social Scientist, Vol. 21(5-6), 1993.
‘Understanding Assam’ review, Social Scientist, Vol. 19(9-10) 1992.
‘The Crisis of Development: Farmers Movements in the Eighties’ review, Other Sociology, Vol.1(3) 1989.
Lessons/Units Written for Open Universities (11):
‘Agrarian Classes And Categories’. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2004-05.
‘Survey Research’. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2004-05.
The Tradition of “Village Studies” in Indian Sociology/ Social Anthropology. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 2004-05.
‘The status of Human Rights in Punjab’, Department of Correspondence courses, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 1997.
‘Human rights and the under-privileged groups: agricultural labourers in India’, Department of Correspondence courses, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 1997.
‘Land reforms and the underprivileged groups in India’, Department of Correspondence courses, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 1998.
Agrarian class structure, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 1998.
‘Middle classes in India’, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 1998.
‘Religious Ethnicity: The case of Punjab’, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 1998.
‘The Basis of Caste Hierarchy: Purity and Pollution’, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 1999.
Theories of stratification: Towards a synthesis, Lenski, Luhmann and Berghe, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 1999.
Seminars/Symposia Organised:
Co-organized a national seminar on ‘Changing Social Formations in Contemporary India’, School of Scial Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. April 24-26 2003.
Co-ordinated (with Dipankar Gupta) a Refresher Course for college lecturers at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi July-August 2002
Organised a National Workshop on the theme ‘Community and Identities: Interrogating Contemporary Discourses on India’, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India. March 19th and 20th 1998.
Research Projects Completed (after Ph.D.):
Religious Mobilizations for Development and Social Change: A Comparative Study of Dalit Movements in Punjab and Maharashtra, India 2009. Funded by University of Birmingham.
‘Dalit Entrepreneurs: Barriers and Supports’. Funded by the World Bank.
‘A Forgotten “Revolution”: Revisiting Agrarian Change in Haryana’ 2008. Funded by the World Bank.
Learning Abroad: CSFP and Higher Education in India. For Commonwealth Trust, London 2007.
Marginals and The State: Religion, Politics and Governance in Contemporary India (with Gurpreet Mahajan) for University of Birmingham, UK.
A Socio-economic and Demographic Study of Villages in Bharuch District (Gujarat) CSS Surat (Along with S P Punalekar) 1990-91.
Untouchability in Rural Punjab 2000-01. Actionaid India.
Agrarian Change and Caste Conflict in Rural Punjab. 2004-05
Rural and Agrarian Studies In India: 1988-2002. Indian Council of Social Sciences Research 2004-05
Recently Delivered Lectures/Talks:
‘Dalits and Religious Minorities’. Eliminating Injustices. Kolkatta Group meeting, February 16 2010. Kolkatta.
‘Changing Modes of Social Science Enquiry in India’. Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, October 6 2009.
“Engagements with Caste’, Keynote Address to workshop on ‘Mapping Marginalities’, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. October 21 2009-10-22
‘Changing Modes of Social Science Enquiry in India’. Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, October 6 2009.
‘Communities and Citizenship’. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. March 5 2009.
‘Towards a Political Theory of Caste’. Centre for the Study Developing Societies, Delhi. March 3 2009.
‘Development, Deprivation and Marginalization’. Keynote address. Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, February 24 2009.
‘Bondage and Beyond’. Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Debt Bondage in India 19 February 2009. organized by ILO sub-regional office, Delhi.
‘A Forgotten “Revolution”: Revisiting Agrarian Change in Haryana’, Department of Sociology, Delhi University, February 6 2009.
‘Targeting Marginalized Minorities: Religion and Community in the Pursuit of Development’, University of Birmingham, UK, January 20 2009.
‘Marginalities: Old and New’, Plenary Lecture at the meeting of the Indian Sociological Society, Jaipur, December 28 2008.
‘State, Politics and the Reproduction of Caste: The Making of Dalit Political Agency in Punjab, India’ Lecture deliver at the University of Pennsylvania, USA December 5, 2008.
‘Roundtable Talk on Poverty and Human Rights’, Rafto Foundation, Bergen, Norway, August 10 2008.
‘Social Movements for Social Change in Contemporary India: A Review of Literature’. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. August 7 2008.
‘Religion, Politics and Governance in Contemporary India’. University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 21 2008.
‘Modernization, Development and Community’. School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, May 23 2007.
‘In The Name of Globalization: Meritocracy, Productivity and the Hidden Language of Caste’ International Conference on Discrimination, University of Princeton, Princeton, United States, May 18 2007.
‘Who Will Speak for the Village: Agrarian Change and Marginalizing Ruralities in Contemporary India’. Department of Sociology, University of Pune, Pune February 27 2007.
‘Development Deficit in the Muslim Minority: Making Sense of the Sachar Committee Report’. University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom). January 23 2007.
‘Religion, Reservations and Caste: Rethinking “Backwardness” of India’s Minorities’. Institute of Human Development, Delhi. December 9 2006.
‘Caste and Citizenship’. CIEFEL, Hyderabad August 10 2006-08-19
‘Marginalizing Ruralities: ‘Village’ and ‘Agriculture’ in Contemporary India’. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China. May 16 2006.
‘Punjab after the Khalistan Movement’. CESS, Hyderabad. March 20 2006.
‘Meanings of Dalit Identities in Contemporary India’. University of Bergen, Norway, June 7 2006.
‘The Indian Village since Independence’ India International Centre. October 5 2005. (New India Foundation lecture series).
‘Beyond Crises: Rethinking Contemporary Punjab Agriculture’. Paper presented at a national seminar on Agrarian Distress and Farmers’ Suicides in India. ANU, Guntur, A.P. February 24th 2005.
‘Changing Caste and Local Democracy’ Centre for Nepalese and Asian Studies, Kathmandu. November 30 2004.
‘Globalisation and Agriculture’ IRMA, Anand (Gujarat) December 15 2004.
‘Globalization and India’. University of Bergen, Bergen. Norway. September 9, 2004.
‘Dissociation, Distancing and Autonomy: Social Transformation and Caste Conflict in Rural Punjab’. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan. June 26 2004.