1. Social Stratification; Dalit Studies; Religious Minorities
2. Rural Society and Agrarian Change in Contemporary India;
3. Sociology of Development;
4. Contemporary Punjab; Social and Cultural Identities |
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Experience |
1. Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi (2006-).
2. Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi (2001-2006).
3. Reader, Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1998-2001)
4. Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (1991-1998)
5. Associate Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat (1990-1991). |
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Awards & Honours |
1. Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow: QUB, Belfast April-June 1996.
2. South Asian Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford: January- June 1997.
3. Visiting Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison: January-June 2002.
4. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway. May-June 2005.
5. Member International Advisory Board of Sociology, official journal of the British Sociological Association (2004-2008).
6. Member Editorial Board of Sikh Formations, Routledge, London (since 2005).
7. Member, ‘The Global Network on Inequality’, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.
8. Country Coordinator, Religions and Development Research Programme (DFID- University of Birmingham)
9. Member editorial board of Social Change, a social science research journal published by Council for Social Development, New Delhi. 2008-09
10. Member Editorial Advisory Committee, Sociological Bulletin, Journal of the Indian Sociological Society. 2008 |
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International Collaboration/Consultancy |
Country Coordinator, Religions and Development Research Programme (DFID- University of Birmingham) 2006-2011.
Member, ‘The Global Network on Inequality’, Princeton University, Princeton, USA. |
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Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5) |
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
Sikhs in Contemporary Times: Religious Identities and Discourses of Development Sikh Formations, Volume 5, Issue 1 June 2009, Pp1 22. 2009
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
From Book-View to Field-View: Social Anthropological: Constructions of the Indian Village, Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 26 (3). Pp. 311-32. 1998.
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Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3) |
Changing Caste: Mobility, Ideology, Identity. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2011 edited. (in Press)
Religions, Communities, Development: Changing Contours of Policy and Politics in Contemporary India (edited with Gurpreet Mahajan): New Delhi: Routledge. 2010
Community and Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India (edited) New Delhi: Sage Publications 2001. |
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