Official Position: PROFESSOR in an all-India social science institute
Basic discipline: SOCIOLOGY
Perspectives: Historical/Comparative
Research Experience: About 25 years
Research Areas/Publications
1. Peasantry
Peasant struggles, land reforms, social change, social movements.
2. Society and Polity
Caste, society, polity, governance, electoral politics, Indian Constitution vis-a-v-s hierarchy and equality, tradition and modernity, and rule of law; corruption, criminality, and politics; casteism, communalism, Hindutva, and Minorities; Multiculturalism and democracy vis-a-vis pluralism and diversity.
3. Weaker Sections
Backward Classes and the new social order; reservations (affirmative action); backward classes and reservation politics; Ambedkarism as emancipation politics and social movement.
4. Education
Indigenous education; British educational and employment policies; educational perspectives old and new; globalisation and education; India's educational efforts and outcome; Science, Technology, and Social Sciences in Higher Education: Democratisation and Access.
5. Research Focus
Tamil Nadu and Kerala in South India in particular; and all-India in general.
6. Publications
Project reports, books, monographs, articles in books & journals, working papers, reports & short notes in journals, articles in newspapers, magazines, & websites, book reviews in journals, newspapers, & magazines.
Main Activities
Reading, writing, publishing; helping the needy, research supervision, & consultancy; strengthening democracy & social well being by exposing systemic sloth, & faultlines in governance & polity; & critiquing issues in system maintenance and system change through the Press and other channels such as web sites. |
