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1 University Faculty Details Page on DU Web-site (PLEASE FILL THIS IN AND SUBMIT A HARD COPY AND SOFT COPY ON CD ALONGWITH YOUR PERIODIC INCREMENT CERTIFICATE(PIC)) Title Dr. First Name Meena Designation Associate Professor Department Sociology Address (Campus) Last Name Radhakrishna Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, Delhi (Residence) B2/36, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi Phone No (Campus) (Residence)optional Mobile Fax meena.rkna@gmail.com Web-Page Education Subject Institution Year Details MA (Sociology) University of Bombay 1985 First Division PhD (Sociology) University of Bombay 1990 Photograph Career Profile Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role Department of Sociology Associate 4 years Teaching Professor Department of Sociology, Reader 4 years Teaching DU Nehru Memorial and UGC Research 5 years Research Library Associate Nehru Memorial and Senior ICHR 2 years Research Library Fellow I.I.T Delhi Visiting Faculty 2 years Teaching Stella Maris College Lecturer 1 year Teaching Research Interests / Specialization Nomadic and Denotified communities; colonial anthropology; indigenous and mobile people; issues and policies relating to social discrimination Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught) At IIT, New Delhi: Rethinking the Indian Tradition 1

2 At Sociology Department, DU : for MA (Final) classes: Sociology of Development Social Stratification Urban Sociology Industrial Sociology For M Phil classes: Historical Sociology Sociology of Development Social Discrimination and Subalterneity: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Publications (LAST FIVE YEARS) Books / Monographs Year of Publication Title Publisher Co-Author 2009 Aitihasic Nalbandi, (in Marathi) A compilation of recent research papers translated from English Econet, Pune 2008, 2001 Dishonoured by History: Criminal Tribes and British Colonial Policy (revised paperback version with a new Preface and a new chapter as an Afterword in 2008 edition) Orient Blackswan In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals Year of Publication Title Journal Co-Author 2010 Invented Pasts and Fabricated Presents:Text of Kunda Datar Memorial Lecture Artha Vijnana: Journal of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, December 2009, Vol LI No. 4, released in June, Starvation among Primitive Tribal Groups Economic and Political weekly, vol xliv no 18, May 2, Stratification among the Disadvantaged: Identifying the Rock-bottom Layers Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, Special Issue on Affirmative 2

3 Action edited by Meghnad Desai, October, Crime of Vigilante Justice Economic & Political Weekly, January 12, Urban Denotified Tribes: Competing Identities, Contested Citizenship 2007 Civil Society s Uncivil Acts: Dancing Bear and Starving Kalandar Articles Economic & Political Weekly, December 22, 2007 Economic and Political Weekly, October 20, 2007 Thought for Food: Starvation among Forest-dependent Communities in Dev Nathan and Virginius Xaxa (eds.) Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Deprivation of Adivasis in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012 (Revised and republished from EPW, 2009) 'Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolutionary Science and Colonial Ethnography' in Biswomoy Pati (ed), Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival, Resistance and Negotiation, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011 (Revised and republished from IHR, 2006) Laws of Metamorphosis: From Nomad to Offender in Kalpana Kannabiran and Ranbir Singh (eds.), Challenging the Rules(s) of Law : Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India, Sage Publications, 2008 Race in History in Historiography: Approaches to History in Modern Times 2, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi Open University, April, 2005 Conference Presentations in last five years: 1. Expert, Meeting of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Working Group on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi, August, 13, Mahatma Phule Memorial Lecture, University of Pune, February 8, Presentations, Steering Committee on the Empowerment of the Scheduled Tribes for the Formulation of XIIth Five Year Plan ( ), Room no. 122, Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi, October 18, 2011 and September 13, Presentation of final report, Working Group on Other Backward Classes, Nomadic, Seminomadic and Denotified Tribes and Economically Backward Classes for the Twelfth Five Year Pan, ( ), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, held at Committee Room C, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, New Delhi, September 29, Expert, Presentations to the Working Group on Other Backward Classes, Nomadic, Seminomadic and Denotified Tribes and Economically Backward Classes for the Twelfth Five Year Pan, ( ), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Committee Room A, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe, New Delhi, September 5, 2011, June 2, 2011 and May 5, Expert, National Advisory Council (NAC) Meeting on Denotified Tribes, NAC Conference Hall, 2, Motilal Nehru Place, Akbar Road, Opp. Lal Bahadur Sastri Memorial, July 28,

4 7. Presentation, Second National Consultation on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, organized by National Advisory Council (NAC), July 13, Chairperson and Moderator, Meetings of the Subgroup-II on Social, Educational and Economic Empowerment of Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, held at National Backward Classes Finance and Dev. Corporation, 5th Floor, NCUI Building, 3 Siri Institutional Area, Khel Gaon Marg, New Delhi , held on July 8, 2011; June 20, 2011; June 2, Presentation, First National Consultation on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, National Advisory Council, organized by the National Advisory Council (NAC), Conference Hall, 2, Motilal Nehru Place, Akbar Road, Opp. Lal Bahadur Sastri Memorial, May Main Resource Person, National Advisory Group (NAC) Working Group on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes to Prepare Background Paper on DNTs, Committee Room (Room 134), Yojana Bhavan, Parliament Street, New Delhi, May 2, 2011 and April 18, Presentation, Meeting of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Working Group on Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, National Advisory Council office, NAC Conference Hall, 2, Motilal Nehru Place, Akbar Road, Opp. Lal Bahadur Sastri Memorial, April 13, Presentation, Workshop on Guidelines for Inclusion of SC/ST in Business,, Civil Service Officers Institute, Kasturba Gandhi March, organised by NACDOR, New Delhi, August 28, 'FRA and the so called Traditional Hunting Communities: Some Urgent Issues' in a National Seminar on The Scheduled Tribals And Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition Of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: Problems encountered in implementation and ways to overcome them, IIC auditorium, April 26 and 27, 2010, Council for Social Development, IIC Annexe, New Delhi, April 26, Keynote Address in a National Seminar on Tribal situation in India: A comparative perspective, Department of History, Osmania University, Hyderabad, March 23rd-24 th, Of Lives and Livelihoods: Nomadic Communities Search for Utopia in an international conference on Expanding the Frontiers of Labour History, 18 th -20 th March, 2010, organized by the Association of Indian Labour Historians with VV Giri National Labour Institute, New Delhi, March 18, Differentiating between Nomadism and Migration: A concept note at the Regional Consultation on Gender and Migration Project, organized by Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi, Noronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal, February 12, Conducted a half day workshop on The Colonial and the Contemporary: Indian denotified and nomadic communities, Training Programme for all India Senior Police Officers, RCVP Noronha Academy of Administration and Management, Bhopal, February 11, Panelist for Discussion on 'Opportunities and Challenges of Non Pastoral Nomadic Communities (NT/DNT) and need of Research, Centre for the Study of Social Discrimination and Exclusion, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, December 10, Kunda Datar Memorial Lecture, Invented pasts and Fabricated Presents Kale Auditorium, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, December 09, Current situation of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Northern States, Planning Commission Consultative Group on Empowerment of STs for midterm appraisal of the Eleventh 4

5 Five Year Plan, Calcutta, November 25, Current situation of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Southern States, Planning Commission Consultative Group on Empowerment of STs for midterm appraisal of the Eleventh Five Year Plan, Hyderabad, November 18, Perceptions, Policies and Practices : hunting communities as "Criminal Tribes in an International Workshop entitled Livelihoods and the Environment: Debating Inter- disciplinary perspectives, October 15-16, 2009 organised by Centre for Studies in Science Policy, (JNU), Department Of History (University of Delhi) and the Department of History ( Uppsala University), JNU, New Delhi, October 16, Chairperson and discussant, Session II - The World of the Tribals, in 'Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand' (A conference in memory of Papiya Ghosh), 8-9 October, 2009, Banga Sanskriti Bhawan, New Delhi, October 8, Thought for Food: Primitive Tribal Groups and Starvation Deaths in an International Seminar on Adivasi/ST Communities in India: Development And Change, August 27-29, 2009, organised by Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi and supported by Planning Commission, Government of India, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and UNICEF, August 27, The Marginalized among the Marginalized in Specialist Conference on Assessing the Marginalisation of Dalits in Economy and Private Sector organized by National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), August 10-11, 2009, India International Centre, New Delhi, August 10, Human Rights violations, Tag of Criminality: Engaging with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Chalking Out a Road Map For Intervention On Issues And Concerns Of Nt-Dnt Communities, orgainised by Econet, IIC, New Delhi, July 18, Social Exclusion of Denotified Tribes: Historical Context and Democratic Response in a seminar on Increasing Dalits Stake and Space in Economy and Civil Society, organised by National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Community Centre, Nehru Vihar, Delhi, June19, The Hunter and the Hunted: Nomadic Communities and Indian Conservation Strategies at an international conference on Terrestrial Environments and their Histories in Modern India, May 1-2, 2009, organized by South Asian Studies Council and the MacMillan Center, Anthropology Department, Yale University, May 2, Distinguished Lecture Series, lecture entitled Tribes of the criminal kind, Tribes of the criminal mind...denotified Communities and State Policy in India in the of the South Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 27, "Revisiting the 'Criminal Tribes' of India under South Asia Colloquium s themed occasional series called Classicism/Anti-Classicism, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 23, Interview in Hindi conducted by National Conference for Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Theme - Livelihood, Title - Lives of Nomadic Tribes, One World South Asia (Community Radio) at All India Radio, 3-4 pm, August 22, Current Status of Denotified Tribes at the National Consultation on Status and Future Course of 5

6 Action in Relation to the Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-nomadic Tribes in India, organized by Oxfam and Social Development Research Institute, Constitution Club, Vallabhbhai Patel House, New Delhi, April 10 11, Keynote address, National seminar on The Impact of Criminal Tribes Act on Society: Yesterday, Today and Days to Come organised by Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar Chair at Madurai Kamaraj University, March 26, Usettled People, Unsettled Issues: State, Civil society and Nomadic Communities in the workshop on Political Ecology, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, March 6-7, Panelist, Technical Session II on Social Exclusion, Equity and Inclusion Possibilities & Challenges before Civil Society Organizations, National Conference on 'What it Takes to Eradicate Poverty", organized by PACS Management Consultants Development Alternatives and PricewaterhouseCoopers, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, December 4-6, 'City/Citizenship: A Story of Banishment', at "Conceptions of Justice in Asia", Third International Congress, Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA), University of Delhi, November Panelist, Round Table 1, Social Exclusion and Discrimination: Towards Inclusive Society, in Round Tables on Dalits, organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, November 2-4, Key Speaker, Plenary Session, International Conference on 'Ethnographic Discourse of the Other' University of Hyderabad, India, jointly Organised by School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, at School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, July 3, Chairperson, Academic Session I titled 'Theory and Practice of Ethnography', International Conference on 'Ethnographic Discourse of the Other', University of Hyderabad, jointly organised by School of Humanities and School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, at School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, July 3, Total Publication Profile optional Books 2 In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals Articles 6 Conference Presentations

7 Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity Expert, National Advisory Council (NAC) Working Group on Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs), Member, Steering Committee on Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes for the formulation of the 12 th Plan ( ) Member, Working Group on Empowerment of the Nomadic, Semi nomadic and denotified tribes for the formulation of the Twelfth plan ( ) Chairperson, Sub group II, Social, Educational and Economic Empowerment of DNTs, 2011 Member, Task Force to Re-examine and Revise the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub Plan Guidelines, 2010 Chairperson, Sub committee on Primitive Tribal Groups, and Member, Consultative Group on Empowerment of Scheduled Tribes for Midterm Appraisal of the Eleventh Five Year Plan, Planning Commission, GoI, July, 2009 onwards Director (Research), National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes, Ministry of Social Justice, Government of India, Expert, National Commission for Denotified, Noamdic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, November, January, Member, Technical Advisory Group, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India August October, 2006 Member, Advisory Committee on Field Studies in Sociology of Education, NCERT, Professional Societies Memberships Life Member, Indian Sociological Society Projects (Major Grants / Collaborations) Urban and Forest Nomadic Tribes: Contemporary Issues and Concerns (research project funded by DU) (Signature of Faculty Member) (Signature & Stamp of Head of the Department) 7