Nandini Sundar
| Nandini Sundar | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 22, 1967 |
| Alma mater |
Oxford University Columbia University |
| Occupation | Professor, Delhi School of Economics |
| Spouse(s) | Siddharth Varadarajan |
| Awards | Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (2010) |
| Website | nandinisundar |
Nandini Sundar (born 1967) is a professor of sociology at the Delhi School of Economics whose research interests include political sociology, law, and inequality. Professor Sundar is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences in 2010, for which the citation reads: "Professor Nandini Sundar is an outstanding social anthropologist of South Asia, who has made major and original contributions to our understanding of environmental struggles, of the impact of central and state policies on tribal politics, and of the moral ambiguities associated with subaltern political movements in contemporary India. These contributions are anchored in her deep grasp of the legacies of colonial rule for cultural politics in contemporary India, and in theoretically innovative understanding of the relationship of major historical events to persistent structural tensions in Indian society. Professor Sundar has placed her detailed studies of tribal politics in Central India in the broader frame of studies of the law, bureaucracy and morality in modern India. In so doing, she has combined innovative empirical and ethnographic methods and cutting-edge approaches to those sociological debates which link the study of social change in modern India to central debates in comparative social theory She was also awarded the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research in 2016
Professor Nandini Sundar obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1989 and Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy and Ph.D. degrees in Anthropology from Columbia University in 1989, 1991 and 1995 respectively.She has previously worked at Jawaharlal Nehru University, The Institute of Economic Growth and Edinburgh University. Sundar was editor of Contributions to Indian Sociology from 2007-2011 and serves on the boards of several journals. She has also been a member of the Technical Support Group to draft Rules for the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2007, as well as served on other working groups in the erstwhile Planning Commission, and NCERT.
In 2007, Professor Sundar along with others filed Public Interest Litigation against human rights violations in Chhattisgarh, arising out of the state sponsored Salwa Judum vigilante movement. In 2011, the Supreme Court of India banned Salwa Judum, ordered compensation for all those affected, and investigation and prosecution of those responsible. They also ordered the disbanding and disarming of Special Police Officers, many of whom were underage youth who had been armed by the state to fight Naxalites.
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