Talk:Nandini Sundar

By Renuka Joshi

Nandini Sundar is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University as of April 2023. According to her university profile, her research interests include Constitutionalism, academic freedom, democracy, law, inequality, and agrarian ecologies.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government in the context of BJP Government.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Journal Articles

Publications on Bastar, Chhattisgarh

1. Sundar, Nandini. Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar, 1854-2006. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2007.
2. Sundar, Nandini. Gunda Dhur Ki Talash Mein. Penguin/Yatra books, 2009.
3. Sundar, Nandini. “Bastar, Maoism and Salwa Judum.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLI, no. 29, 2006, pp. 3187-3192.
4. Sundar, Nandini. “Divining Evil: The State and Witchcraft in Bastar.” Journal of Gender, Technology and Development, vol. 5, no. 3, 2001, pp. 425-448.
5. Sundar, Nandini. “Religion and Culture in Bastar: the Politics of ‘Conversion’.” Eastern Anthropologist, vol. 54, nos. 3-4, 2001, pp. 255-272.

Publications on Jharkhand

1. Sundar, Nandini. Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand. Oxford University Press, 2009.
2. Sundar, Nandini. “Laws, policies and practices in Jharkhand.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. Xl, no. 41, 2005, pp. 4459-4462.
3. Sundar, Nandini. “’Custom’ and ‘Democracy’ in Jharkhand.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. Xl, no. 41, 2005, pp. 4430-4434. Publications on Social Psychology and Anthropology
4. Sundar, Nandini, Satish Deshpande, and Amita Baviskar, editors. Popular Culture, Gender and Sexuality: Essays in honour of Patricia Uberoi. Special Issue of Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 44, nos. 1 & 2, 2010.
5. Sundar, Nandini, Patricia Uberoi, and Satish Deshpande, editors. Anthropology in the East: The founders of Indian sociology and anthropology. Permanent Black, 2007.
6. Sundar, Nandini. “Educating for Inequality: The experiences of India’s ‘Indigenous’ Citizens.” Asian Anthropology, vol. 9, 2010, pp. 117-142.
7. Sundar, Nandini. “Toward an Anthropology of Culpability.” American Ethnologist, vol. 31, no. 2, 2004, pp. 145-163.
8. Sundar, Nandini. "Debating Dussehra and Reinterpreting Rebellion in Bastar District, Central India.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, vol. 7, no. 1, 2001, pp. 19-35.
9. Sundar, Nandini. "Caste as Census Category: Implications for Sociology.” Current Sociology, vol. 48, no. 3, 2000, pp. 111-126.

Publications on Forest Management

1. Sundar, Nandini, Roger Jeffery, and Neil Thin. Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in Four Indian States. Oxford University Press, 2001.
2. Sundar, Nandini, and Roger Jeffery, editors. A New Moral Economy for India's Forests: Discourses of Community and Participation. Sage Publications, 1999.
3. Sundar, Nandini. “Unpacking the ‘Joint’ in Joint Forest Management.” Development and Change, vol. 31, 2000, pp. 255-279.

Publications on Politics and Government

1. Sundar, Nandini, and Aparna Sundar, editors. Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development. Sage Publications, 2014.
2. Sundar, Nandini. “The Rule of Law and Citizenship in Central India: Post-colonial Dilemmas.” Citizenship Studies, vol. 15, nos. 3-4, 2011, pp. 419-432.
3. Sundar, Nandini. “Interning Insurgent Populations: The Buried Histories of Indian Democracy.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLVI, no. 6, 2011, pp. 47-57.
4. Sundar, Nandini. “Teaching to hate: The RSS’s Pedagogical Program.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 39, no. 16, 2004, pp. 1605-1612.
5. Sundar, Nandini. “Indigenise, Nationalise and Spiritualise: An Agenda for Education?” International Social Science Journal, no. 173, 2002, pp. 373-383.
6. Sundar, Nandini. “Is Devolution Democratisation.” World Development, vol. 29, no. 12, 2001, pp. 2007-2024.

Book Chapters

1. Sundar, Nandini. “India’s Million Mutinies: The Paths to Reconciliation.” In The Argumentative Indian, edited by Amitabh Mattoo, Australia India Institute, 2014.
2. Sundar, Nandini. “Public-Private Partnerships in the Industry of Insecurity.” In Rhetorics of Security, edited by Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia, New York University Press, 2013, pp. 153-174.
3. Sundar, Nandini. “Violent Social Conflicts in India’s Forests: Society, State and the Market.” In Deeper Roots of Historical Injustice: Trends and Challenges in the Forests of India, Washington: RRI, 2012, pp. 13-32.
4. Sundar, Nandini, and Aparna Sundar. “The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics from Governmentality.” In Reframing Democracy and Agency: Interrogating Political Society, edited by Ajay Gudavarthy, Anthem press, 2012.
5. Sundar, Nandini. “Adivasi Politics and State Responses: Historical Processes and Contemporary Concerns.” In Narratives from the Margins, edited by Sanjukta Das Gupta, Primus Books, 2012.
6. Sundar, Nandini. “At War with Oneself: Constructing Naxalism as India’s Biggest Security Threat.” In India's Contemporary Security Challenges, edited by Michael Kugelman, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2011.
7. Sundar, Nandini. “The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India.” In The Post-Liberalisation State in India, edited by Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan, Routledge, 2010.
8. Sundar, Nandini. “Framing the Political Imagination: Custom, Democracy and Citizenship.” In Legal Grounds, edited by Nandini Sundar, Oxford University Press, pp. 189-216.
9. Sundar, Nandini. “The Dialectics of Dussehra.” Extract from Subalterns and Sovereigns, reprinted in Historical Anthropology, edited by Saurabh Dube, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 283-296.
10. Sundar, Nandini. “The Dilemmas of ‘Working’ Anthropology in Twenty-first-Century India.” In Anthropology Put to Work, edited by Les W. Field and Richard G. Fox, Berg Publishers, 2007, pp. 181-200.
11. Sundar, Nandini. “Change and Development in Industrial Society.” In Social Change and Development in India. Textbook in Sociology for Class XII, NCERT, 2007.
12. Sundar, Nandini. “Forest Society and Colonialism.” In India and the Contemporary World. Textbook in History for Class IX, NCERT, 2006.
13. Sundar, Nandini. “Adivasi vs. vanvasi: the politics of conversion and re-conversion in Central India.” In Assertive Religious Identities, edited by Satish Saberwal and Mushirul Hasan, Manohar, 2006, pp. 357-390.
14. Sundar, Nandini. “Village Histories: Coalescing the past and present.” In History and the Present, edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh, Permanent Black, 2002, pp. 144-182.
15. Sundar, Nandini. “The Indian Census: Identity and Inequality.” In Institutions and Inequality, edited by R. Guha and J. Parry, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 100-127.

References

• "Letter of Support" Dismantling Global Hindutva Website accessed on August 7 2022