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 Professor First Name Satish Last Name Deshpande Designation Professor/ Dean, Faculty of Social Science Department Department of Sociology Address (Campus) Delhi School of Economics, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 Faculty of Social Science, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 (Residence) A1/6 Maurice Nagar, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 Phone No (Campus) 011-27667858 (Residence)optional Mobile 9810044269 Fax Email Web-Page Education Subject Institution Year Details Ph.D. Sociology University of California 1991 M.A. Sociology University of California 1988 M.A. Economics CESP, JNU, New Delhi 1981 Career Profile Organisation / Institution Designation Duration Role St.Stephen's College, Delhi University, Dept of Economics University of Hyderabad, Dept of Sociology Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, Sociology Unit University of Delhi, Sociology Dept, Delhi School of Economics Photograph Lecturer 1983-1985 Undergraduate teaching, research Lecturer 1991-1996 MA, MPhil, PhD Teaching, research Reader 1996-2005 Research Professor 2005 MA, MPhil, PhD Teaching, Research Research Interests / Specialization Socio-cultural aspects of the economy; Caste inequalities and identities in contemporary India and their relationship to social policy; Social space and its interactions with globalization; Contemporary social theory and the history and politics of the social sciences in India; South-South intellectual linkages; Higher education and social inclusion and pedagogy. Teaching Experience ( Subjects/Courses Taught) Classical, Modern & Contemporary Sociological Theory; Research Methods; Sociology of Culture; Sociology of India; Sociology of Development; Economic Sociology; etc. Honors & Awards Publications (LAST FIVE YEARS) Books / Monographs Year of Publication 2007 Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology Title Publisher Co-Author 2008 Dalits in the Muslim and Christian Communities: A Status Report on Current Permanent Black, Delhi and Seagull, London National Commission for Minorities, Government of India Co-edited with P.Uberoi and N.Sundar Author
Social Scientific Knowledge 2008 Equal Opportunity Commission: What, Why and How 2010 March International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology 2010 October Social Science Teaching in Hindi: An Inventory and Analysis of Popular Textbooks at Six North Indian Universities 2012 in press Beyond Inclusion: The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education In Indexed/ Peer Reviewed Journals Year of Publication Report for the Government of India, Ministry of Minority Affairs Report for British Sociological Association (BSA), the Heads and Professors of Sociology (HaPS), and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), U.K. Report for Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai; Higher Education Cell, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru; & Institute for Socio-Economic Research in Democracy and Development, Delhi Routledge India Co-author with 7 member committee of the Govt of India Co-author with 9 member international expert group. Editor and author of two chapters Co-edited with Usha Zacharias Title Journal Co-Author 2012 Capitalism, Exlusion, Transition: The politics of the present Economic and Political Weekly, Apr 21, 2012, pp.41-44. 2011 Revisiting the Basics Seminar, n.624, August 2011, pp.14-18. 2010 The Politics of Not Counting Caste (Translated into French and published on the e-journal La vie des idées as Le déni de la caste en Inde. Available at: http://www.laviedesidees.fr/le-deni-de-la-caste-en- Inde.html ) 2009 Sharing Sovereignty: Negotiating Inequality and Difference in Postnational Societies (Keynote Address to the XIVth Annual Conference of the South African Sociological Association) Economic and Political Weekly, v.45 n.25, Jun 19-21, 2010, pp.39-42. South African Review of Sociology, v.40, n.2, 2009, pp.9-18. 2009 The Practice of Social Theory and the Politics of Location Economic and Political Weekly, v.44 n.10, Mar 7, 2009, pp.40-46. 2009 Inclusion vs. Excellence: Caste and the Framing of Fair Access in Indian Higher Education South African Review of Sociology, v.40, n.1, 2009, pp.127-147. 2009 The Moral Meanings of Majorities, Seminar, n.602, Oct 2009, pp.20-24. Mary E. John 2008 Declining Simplistic Narratives Economic and Political Weekly, v.43 n.5, Feb 2-8, 2008, pp.25-28. 2008 Changing Social Composition Seminar, n.587, July 2008, pp.23-26 Articles Caste quotas and institutionalised inclusion in Indian higher education, in Satish Deshpande and Usha Zacharias (eds), Beyond Inclusion: The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education, Routledge India, in press 2012. Outside capital, inside the urban? Notes and queries on the politics of the present, in K.Coelho, L.Kamath & M.Vijaybaskar (eds), Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban Governance, Routledge India, in press, 2012, pp.37-58. Social justice and higher education in India today: Markets, ideologies and inequalities in a fluid context, in Martha Nussbaum and Zoya Hasan (eds), Equalizing Access: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India, United States and South Africa, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012, pp.212-38. Pass, Fail, Distinction: The Examination as a Social Institution, text of the Third Marjorie Sykes Memorial Lecture, published as a monograph by the NCERT, New Delhi, September 2010, pp.10-66. Caste Inequalities in Contemporary India: Comparisons Based on NSSO 55 th and 61 st Rounds, in Debal K. Singha-Roy (ed) Surviving
Against Odds: The Marginalised in a Globalising World, Manohar, New Delhi 2010, pp.97-117. Total Publication Profile optional Publication (last THREE years) - Conference Presentations 2012 03 Mar Centre for Women s Development Studies, New Delhi. National Consultation on Equity in Higher Education: Towards an Intersectional Approach. Presentation: Diversity, Intersectionality and Policy in Higher Education 07 Feb Indian Council for Social Science Research, International Conference on Indian Social Sciences in the Changing World: Roles, Responsibilities and Reforms, Ashok Hotel, New Delhi. Presentation: Social Science in a Postnational World: Towards a Contemporary Politics of Location. 25 Jan Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, National Law School University of India, Bengaluru. National Consultation on Religious Minorities and Inclusive India. Presentation: Intractable Intersections: Community, Minority, Inequality. 2011 21-23 Nov Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. National Seminar on Annihilation of Caste. Presentation: The Law and the Annihilation of Caste: Non-Discrimination, Inequality, Backwardness and Castelessness. 16-17 Nov Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. Seminar on Caste. Presentation: Legalizing Caste: Backwardness, Castelessness and the Law. 10 June Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. Workshop (in memory of Dr. Anjan Ghosh) on Sociology: The State of the Discipline. Presentation: Higher Education, the Social Sciences and the Language Question in an Unequal Society. 18 May Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. Research Seminar on La racialisation en question, Presentation: Justice vs Universalism? Political Visibility and Social Statistics. 10 May. Centre d'études de l'inde et de l'asie du sud (CEIAS), Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris. Presentation: Citizenship as Shared Sovereignty: Postnational Predicaments 04 May Centre d études et de recherches internationales (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris. Presentation: Credential Capital, Social Inequalities and Higher Education in India. 26 Apr Centre d'études de l'inde et de l'asie du sud (CEIAS), Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris. Presentation: The Grain of the Social: Rethinking Rural and Urban in 21st Century India. 28-29 Mar South Asia Chapter of the British Academy, conference on Poverty in South Asia, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. Presentation: Sustainable Poverty: Caste relations and the reproduction of durable inequalities. 24 Feb Ambedkar Chair, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. National Seminar on Caste and the Census. Presentation: From Caste Census to the Annihilation of Caste: Notes on a Long and Difficult Journey. 22 Feb Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU. National Conference on Movements for Equity in Reservations. Presentation: Intra-Group Differences and Equity in Reservations. 09 Jan Action for Social Equality, Public Meeting on Caste Census, Thrissur, Kerala. Presentation: From Caste Census to the Annihilation of Caste: Notes on a Long and Difficult Journey. 2010 30 Dec Indian Academy of Social Sciences 34th Conference, Guwahati. Presentation: The New Geographies of Mobility: Spatial Aspects of Social Transformation Today. 21 Nov Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy, Mangalore University. Presentation: Gramsci, Ambedkar and the Common Sense of Caste. 25 Aug Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Summer School on Researching the Contemporary. Presentation: Social Perspectives on the Contemporary. 23-24 Aug Economic and Political Weekly Research Writing Workshop, Jamia Millia Islamia. Presentations: 1. Publishability: What is it and how to acquire it and 2. The Structure of Academic Articles. 24 Jul National Law School University of India, Bengaluru. National Consultation on Caste Census. Presentation: Caste Census: Dos and Donts 6-9 May Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Seminar: 60 Years of Indian Democracy. Presentation: Caste Articulation and Indian Democracy: Sharing Sovereignty in Postnational Contexts. 14 Apr Ambedkar University, Delhi. Symposium: A Dialogue with Ambedkar on a University. Presentation: The University and the Annihilation of Caste. 06 Mar Commission for Scheduled Castes/Tribes & Backward Classes, Catholic Bishops Conference of India, National Seminar on Building Inclusive India: Overcoming Social and Religious Discriminations. Presentation: The Status of Dalits in the Muslim and Christian Communities. 4-6 Mar NCERT Economics Unit, National Seminar on Economics Education in Indian Schools. Presentation: Bonsai vs. Seedling: Reflections on Approaches to Textbook Writing. 03 Mar The Third Marjorie Sykes Memorial Lecture, NCERT-Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer: Pass, Fail, Distinction: The Examination as a Social Institution. 05 Feb CSSEIP and Ambedkar Study Centre, Mangalore University, National Seminar on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Dalit Politics Today. Presentation Sharing Sovereignty in Postnational Contexts, 2009 21-22 Dec ICSSR-Maison Des Sciences De L Homme, Paris. Joint seminar on Challenges in Public Higher Education: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Presentation: Social Dimensions of Higher Education: Inclusion and Inequality.
19-21 Nov Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. National Seminar on: Repositioning Subalternity in Globalized India: The Dynamics of Social Inclusion. Paper: Aukaat, Jugaad aur Sanskar: Samakaleen Jati Vishamta aur Samajik Nyaya ka Sawaal (in Hindi) 09 Nov Centre for the Study of Political Systems, JNU, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi and British Academy. International Seminar on Inequality and Affirmative Action. Presentation: Empirical Injustice, Practical Politics and Theoretical Justice. 08 Nov Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata and NR Tata Trust, Social Science Methodologies Workshop, Kolkata, 4-9 November, 2009. Presentation: Class and Contradiction: Towards a Collegial Conception of Class. 22-25 Sep Institute of Social Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brazil. Seminar: The Social Sciences in the Contemporary World: Revisions and Prospects. Paper: The Social Sciences in Postnational Contexts: A View From India 21 Aug National Institute of Advanced Study, Bengaluru. Department of Science and Technology Seventh Annual Training Programme on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Science and Technology. Invited Lecture: Between Rural Past and Urban Future: The Eventful Present of Indian Sociology. Jul 25 Madras Institute of Development Studies and French Institute, Puducheri Workshop Opening Up or Ushering In? Interrogating Discourses of Public Consultation and Citizen Participation (PC And CP) in Urban Governance, Puducheri, 25-26 July, 2009. Keynote Paper: Outside Capital, Inside the City? Theorising the Possible Futures of Urban India. Jun 28 Keynote Address, XV Annual Congress of the South African Sociological Association, University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg. Sharing Sovereignty: Negotiating Inequality and Difference in Postnational Societies Jun 24 Conference on Comprehending Class, Centre for Social Research, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg. Plenary Paper: Class and its Colleagues in the Complex 21st Century: A View From India May 8 Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, Seminar on Comparative Contexts of Discrimination: Social Exclusion and Equal Opportunity Policies in Asia. Presentation: Muslim and Christian Dalits in India: Mismatches of Status, Identity and Entitlements. Mar 19 India-China Institute, New School for Social Research (New York) and Centre for Policy Studies (New Delhi) conference on Rethinking Equality and Prosperity: India and China, presentation: Thinking About Social Inequality: An Indian Perspective. Mar 2 Repression, Welfare, Power-Sharing: Three Models of Caste Politics in Contemporary India, presented at festschrift workshop for Prof. D.L. Sheth, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, 2-3 March, 2009. Feb 26 Postnational Sociologies: Rearticulating a Politics of Location in the Contemporary World, presented at seminar on Location in the 21st Century: The Possible Futures of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dept of Sociology, University of Delhi, 25-27 February, 2009. Jan 29 Presentation in the ICSSR Round Table on Future Directions in Indian Social Science, Hyderabad, 29-30 January, 2009. Jan 4 Competing Inequalities: Keywords in the Political Vocabularies of the Present, presentation at the, Social Science Methodologies Workshop, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, 4-9 January, 2009. Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity Co-Coordinator of Editorial Committee for NCERT Sociology textbooks Convenor, Course Committee on Sociology, CBSE Member, Expert Group on Equal Opportunity Commission, Ministry of Minority Affairs Report on Muslim and Christian Dalits produced for National Commission of Minorities Professional Societies Memberships Life member, Indian Sociological Society Other Details His research interests include caste and class inequalities, contemporary social theory, politics and history of the social sciences and south-south interactions. He is the author of Contemporary India: A Sociological View (2003) (Signature of Faculty Member) (Signature & Stamp
of Head of the Department)