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Mailing Address Department of Sociology Delhi School of Economics Delhi University, Delhi 110007 INDIA or Residential mailing address: A-9 1st floor Nizamuddin East New Delhi 110013 INDIA

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Research Interests Sundar is currently engaged in research on the history and anthropology of citizenship and war in South Asia, as well as disciplinary histories in sociology and anthropology. She also continues with her interests in political economy and development, environment and indigenous people and the sociology of law.

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Publications * Books Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar, 1854-1996, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997. Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in Four Indian States (with Roger Jeffery and Neil Thin), Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001. A New Moral Economy for India's Forests: Discourses of Community and Participation. (edited with Roger Jeffery), New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999. Journal Articles "Toward an Anthropology of Culpability." In American Ethnologist, 31 (2), 2004, 145-163. "Teaching to hate: The RSS's Pedagogical Program." In Economic and Political Weekly 39 (16), 2004, 1605-1612 (Also in Tom Ewing ed. Revolution and Pedagogy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005, 195-218). "Indigenise, Nationalise and Spiritualise: An Agenda for Education?" In International Social Science Journal, 173, September 2002, 373-383. "Debating Dussehra and Reinterpreting Rebellion in Bastar District, Central India." In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, 7 (1), 2001, 19-35. "Divining Evil: The State and Witchcraft in Bastar". In Journal of Gender, Technology and Development, 5 (3), 2001, 425-448. "Is Devolution Democratisation". In World Development, 29 (12), 2001, 2007-2024. "Religion and Culture in Bastar: the Politics of Conversion". In Eastern Anthropologist, 54 (3-4), 2001, 255-272. "Unpacking the `Joint' in Joint Forest Management." In Development and Change, 31, 2000, 255-279. "Caste as Census Category: Implications for Sociology." In Current Sociology, 48 (3), 2000, 111-126. "Defending the Dalki Forest: `Joint' Forest Management in Lapanga." In Economic and Political Weekly, 31 (45 & 46), 1996, 3021-3025, (with Abha Mishra and Neeraj Peter). "The dreaded Danteswari: Annals of alleged sacrifice." In Indian Economic and Social History Review, 32 (3), 1995, 345-374. Book Chapters "Verrier Elwin and the 1940s Missionary Debate in Central India." In T.B. Subba and Sujit Som (eds.) Between Ethnography and Fiction: Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in India. New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2005, pp. 86-109. "Devolution, Joint Forest Management and the Transformation of Social Capital." In Dwaipayan Bhattacharya, Niraja Jayal, Bishnu Mohapatra and Sudha Pai (eds.) Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience, New Delhi, Sage, 2004, pp. 203-232. "Introduction." In The Kamar by S.C. Dube, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003. "A Move from Major to Minor: Competing Discourses of Non-Timber Forest Products in India." In P. Greenough and A. Tsing (eds.) Environmental Discourses in South and Southeast Asia, Duke University Press, 2003, (with Roger Jeffery). "License to Kill: Patterns of Violence." In Siddharth Varadarajan (ed.) Gujarat: the Making of a Tragedy, New Delhi, Penguin, 2002. "Village Histories: Coalescing the past and present." In Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh (eds.) History and the Present, Delhi, Permanent Black, 2002, 144-182. "Beyond the Bounds? Violence at the Margins of New Legal Geographies." In N. Peluso and M. Watts (eds.) Violent Environments, Cornell, Cornell University Press, 2001, 328-353. "Joint Forest Management: A Silent Revolution among forest staff?" In B. Vira and R. Jeffery (eds.) Participatory Natural Resource Management: Analytical Perspectives, London, Macmillan, 2001, 144-162 (with Roger Jeffery, and Pradeep Khanna). "The Construction and Destruction of Indigenous Knowledge in India's Joint Forest Management Program." In Roy Ellen (ed.) Indigenous Technical Knowledge and its Transformations, London, Harwood Press, 2000, 79-100. (Excerpted and published in Darell Posey ed. Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, London, UNEP/Intermediate Technology Publications, 1999, 388-392). "The Indian Census: Identity and Inequality." In R. Guha and J. Parry (eds.) Institutions and Inequality, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999, 100-127 "The Asna Women's Collective: The Interplay of Gender and Environment in a Village Ecological Initiative." In G. Persoon and A. Kalland (eds.) Environmental Movements in Asia, London, Curzon Press, 1998, 227-252.

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