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Yagati Chinna Rao

Yagati Chinna Rao
Yagati Chinna Rao
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Social Inclusion,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
407
Off. Phone
011-26704165/4119
Residence
011-26741467
Email
ycrao[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, cryagati[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/chinnarao/cv.pdf
Qualifications

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Dalit Histories and Politics; Discrimination and Exclusion; Education of the Marginalised; Affirmative Action; and Human Rights

Experience

25 (Twenty-Five) years of Research and Teaching

Awards & Honours

  • 2023 – Erasmus + Senior Mobility Teaching at School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Kaunas Technological University, Kaunas, Lithuania, (02-06 October 2023)

  • 2017 – Visiting Professor, Kaunas Technological University, Kaunas, Lithuania.

  • 2016 – Visiting Proessor, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.

  • 2013 – Visiting Professor, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.

  • 2011-2012 – Visiting Scholar, Institut d’Etudes Advancees de Nantes, France

  • 2011 – Dennis Brutus Visiting Professor on Non-Racialism and Democracy, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

  • 2010 - Visiting Professor Fellowship, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.

  • 2001-2002 – Visiting Fellow (Charles Wallace India Trust), University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

  • Senior Research Fellowship (UGC) 1992-1995

  • Junior Research Fellowship (UGC) 1990-1992

  • Qualified U.G.C. (JRF & Lectureship) Examination 1991.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

NA

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Labour, Diaspora and Marginality: Essays in Honour of Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Primus Books, Delhi, forthcoming (Co-Edited with Hintendra Kumar Patel).

  • Towards Inclusivity: Essays on Social Exclusion and Discrimination, Meena Book Publications, Delhi, 2022, (Edited), [ISBN: 978-93-85957-50-5].

  • Dalit Intellectuals: Ideas, Struggles and the Vision, Primus Books, Delhi, 2022, (Co-edited with Raj Sekhar Basu).

  • The Pasts of the Outcastes: Readings in Dalit History (edited with Sabyasachi Bhattacharya) Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, 2017. [ISBN 978-93-86296-65-8]).

  • Dalits’ Struggle for Identity: Andhra and Hyderabad, 1900–1950, (New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2013), [ISBN 978-81-7391-573-4], Second Edition, (First Published in 2003).

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  • “Emergence of Dalit Studies in India: Some Historiographical Notes”, Kakatiya Journal of Historical Studies, Vol. XVI, No.1, (May 2021), [ISSN No: 0976 – 2345], (A UGC CARE-Listed Journal), pp. 1-27.

  • “Idea of Social Justice and Dalit Predicaments in Post-Colonial South India”, at a Symposium on Problems and Prospects of Social Justice in South India: A Post-Independent Evaluation, Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Session of South Indian History Congress, (UGC care-listed Journal, ISSN 2229-3671) held at Annamalai Nagar, 2020, [published in February, 2022], pp. 1229-1238.

  • “Ambedkar and the Making of Modern Indian Nation”, Scholar Critic, (An International Journal of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies), Vol. 6, No.3, (December, 2019), pp.33-53, [ISSN 2348-6945 (Online), ISSN 2348-6937 (Print)].

  • “Dalit Movement in Andhra Pradesh: A Historical Outline of a Hundred Years”, Indian Historical Review, Vol. 42(1), (2015), pp. 113-139.

  • “Caste and Class in Colonial Andhra: Dalit Mobilisation in Early Twentieth Century”, in Irfan Habib (ed.), Papers on Forms of Inequality in India History, (from the Aligarh Historian Society), at the Indian History Congress (75th Session), (2014), pp.110-138.