Faculty

Professor Muchkund Dubey formerly served in the Indian Foreign Service and was a Professor in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is researching a wide array of issues related to world economy, international monetary and trading systems, security and disarmament, South Asian cooperation and international relations.

Shri D. Bandyopadhyay was Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministries of Finance (Revenue) and Rural Development and also served as India's Executive Director in the Asian Development Bank,Manila. While serving in West Bengal he was mainly responsible for developing the methodology of and implementing the 'Operation Banga' which became a model for land reforms in India. Given his expertise in rural development, agrarian relations and land reforms, labour and Panchayati Raj, he had been entrusted by the Government of India with a variety of assignments. He had been the convener of the Task Force on Panchayats in the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation for almost a decade. In the academic field, he is Chancellor's nominee as a Member of the Senate of the University of Calcutta as well as a Member of the Court of the University of Kalyani. He was also the Chairman of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata from 1982 to 1987. He has authored many scholarly articles in reputed national journals and newspapers on topical subjects.

Dr. T. Haque is a well known agricultural economist. Before joining CSD, he was Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs of Prices, Govt. of India for above 5 years and ICAR National Fellow/Professor at the National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi for five years. He served as consultant to several international organizations such as ILO, FAO, AARDO, The World Bank and ICA. He also served as visiting Fellow to IFPRI, U.S.A. Oxford University, U.K. and University of Alberta, Canada. Prof. Haque worked as member/chairman of several professional societies, working groups and advisory boards of Planning Commission, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, CII, ICAR, NIRD, HIRD and others. Prof. Haque has published six books, nineteen research reports and seventy five research papers and articles in journals of national and international repute.

Prof. Amit Bhaduri after his degrees in Economics from the Universities of Calcutta and Cambridge received Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He was awarded Stevenson Prize for the best piece of research in that University in 1966. He was extended Honorary Life Fellowship of the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, in 1974. He was given the ICSSR Prize in recognition of original work in Economics in 1983. He was nominated to Honorary Life Professorship of Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1986. He held teaching positions in the Presidency College, Kolkata; Pembroke College, Cambridge; Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum; Standford University, USA; El College de Mexico, USA; Universities of Vienna and Linz, Austria; University of Bologna, Italy; Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata; University of Bremen, Germany; University of Trondheim, Norway; Wissenschafts Kolleg zu Berlin; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences; and Department of Political Economy, University of Paiva, Italy. Prof. Bhaduri acted as Research Consultant to ILO, UNCTAD, UNDP, UNIDO, U.N., and Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific Economic Commission for the Middle East; Vienna Institute of Comparative Economic Studies; and Development Bank of South Africa. Prof. Bhaduri has 5 books to his credit and has published more than 70 research articles in international journals of repute.

Prof. Mushirul Hasan (Visiting Professor) He is presently the Director General, National Archives of India, New Delhi, Honorary Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, Honorary Professor, The World Institute for Advanced Study, New Delhi, Chairperson of the Indian Congress of Asian and Pacific Studies (ICAPS), 2009, President, Indo-Iran Society, New Delhi and Additional Chairman, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, New Delhi.  He was Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia  (10 June 2004 – 02 September 2009), Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1992 – 1996), Director, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia (July 2000-January 2010), Vice-President, Asian (UNESCO) Conference on “Management of Social Transformation” at Bangkok, 1995, President, Indian History Congress (Modern India), 2002 and General President, Punjab History Congress, Patiala, 2007.

Dr. Hari Mohan Mathur (Visiting Professor) has wide experience in resettlement (research, social impact assessment, policies, planning, monitoring, evaluation, training and capacity building) having worked during last 10 years with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other developmental agencies. The experience covers a variety of projects, including dams for hydropower and irrigation, thermal power, coal mining, urban improvement, canals and highways. As staff consultant to the Asian Development Bank, he prepared a Resettlement Plan for the Calcutta Environmental Improvement Project (2000). Working recently on other ADB projects, he helped establish a Social Development & Resettlement Unit within the National Highways Authority of India (2001), and carried out a review of the NHAI resettlement experience (2003). Earlier as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), served government of India and held highest positions including Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan State, Joint Secretary to the Government of India and Head, Training Division and Director of the HCM Institute of Public Administration. Also he served as Vice Chancellor, University of Rajasthan. He was posted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Development Administration Specialist at the UN Asia and Pacific Development Centre (1982-84), and in Kampala as UN Adviser to the UN, Adviser to the Government of Uganda (1984-86) on development management. He is a Life Member, Society for International Development (Headquarters in Rome). He is the Editor Resettlement News, published twice a year in January and July. He authored and edited numerous books on resettlement, anthropology and development and published articles in international journals. His publications on resettlement include: Development, Displacement and Resettlement: Focus on Asian experiences, edited with Michael Cernea (Vikas, 1955), Managing Projects that involve Resettlement: Case Studies from Rajasthan, India (World Bank/EDI 1997) and Development Projects and Impoverishment Risks: Resettling Project-Affected People in India, edited with David Marsden (Oxford, 1998). As editor of the Eastern Anthropologist, he published its special issue on resettlement (2000).

Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Visiting Professor) He is the Editor, Social Change, CSD’s quarterly journal, Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, M A (Delhi), Ph. D. (UC, Berkeley)  is a Political Scientist and a China scholar with many publications on theoretical and empirical dimensions of social movements, human rights, development experience and regional role of India and China. Currently also the Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi and President, Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar. He is also a Visiting Professor in Global Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara since 2007 where he teaches every Spring.

He retired in 2004 as the Director, Developing Countries Research Centre and Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi where he taught since 1969. He is a former Director of ICS and a former Editor of China Report. His earlier academic assignments abroad included Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow (1973), UC, Berkeley (1974), Peking University (1979), Oxford (1987) and Copenhagen (1990) and Lagos (2005). He is also active in the human rights and peace movement. His recent publications include Contemporary Indian Political Theory (2000), Class, Caste, Gender (Ed.2004) and Grass-roots Democracy in India and China (Co-ed. 2007), India: Social Development Report 2010 (Ed. 2010) and China’s Success Trap: Lessons for World Development ( Forthcoming)

Prof. K.B.Saxena (Professor of Social Justice and Governance) has been a student of Political Science in the University of Delhi. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1964 and held important government positions such as Joint Secretary, Land Reforms; Addl. Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar; Secretary in the Ministries of Welfare, Rural Development and Health, Government of India. He was Principal Adviser to the Planning Commission as well. He prepared report on Atrocities against SCs for National Human Rights Commission.He contributed numerous of articles/papers and edited many books.

Shri Praful Bidwaiaxena (Durgabai Deshmukh Chair in Social Development)                                                   

Dr. M. K. Jabbi (Senior Fellow) did her B.A.Hons and Masters in Psychology with specialisations in clinical psychology and psychopathology. She was a gold medalist both at the graduation as well as at the post-graduation level. She was awarded the UGC Junior Research Felloship for her doctoral thesis on religious identity and prejudice in Sikh students for her Ph.D (1980). She has been in the Council since then and has worked on almost two dozen projects on a wide range of issues including literacy, health, population and issues related to children, women and tribals. She has undertaken several evaluation studies in the field of literacy and has co-edited two books on tribal programmes on M&E. She was sponsored by the UNFPA to attend a five week Training workshop on Women in Management organised by the Centre for Development and Population Activities, Washington, D.C.

Dr. K. S. Subramaniam (Senior Fellow) He is a senior civil servant and retired as Director General of the State Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development of the Northeast. He is the author of three recent books, one of which is "Political Violence and the Police in India" (Sage, 2007). His most recent publication is "Are the Indian Police A Law  Unto Themselves", published by National Social Watch in 2011. He is currently ICSSR Senior Fellow at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi. He is working on a book on conflict resolution in Northeast India.

Dr. Prashant Kumar Trivedi (Associate Fellow) has done his Doctorate on Dalit Women and Social Development: A Sociological Study of Lucknow District of Uttar Pradesh from the University of Lucknow in Sociology. His main areas of interest are rural studies, women and Dalits. He has presented and published several papers in national and international seminars, conferences and journals.

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Shrivastava (Associate Fellow) has submitted his Ph.D on 'A Study of Educational Problems of the School-Going Tribal Students in the District of Ranchi' from A. N.Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna,  in Magadh University of Bodh Gaya. Earlier he did his M.A. in Sociology from Patna University, Patna. He received ICSSR Doctorol Felloship and Young Sociologist Award for the Best Abstract submitted to RC-15 by All India Sociological Society. His areas of interest include school education and underprivileged groups of society; policy, finance and Panchayati Raj Institutions in relation to school education; and Right to Education & Common School System in India. He worked for the Common School System Commission, Govt. of Bihar and in a handful of projects related to different aspects of school education. He also worked as guest faculty at Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Patna University. He has presented several papers at national and international Seminars and Conferences.

Dr. Mondira Bhattacharya (Associate Fellow) is a specialist in the field of Agricultural Geography. Having completed her Masters and M.Phil from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, she was engaged in research on the economics of Basmati Rice cultivation and trade. Her findings on the subject led her on to her thesis on "Basmati Rice Cultivation in India under a Globalized Trade Regime". She has a deep understanding on various issues regarding Agricultural geography and related economics and its impact on the concerned farmer segment, such as the international patents issue, WTO sanctions, fertiliser subsidies etc. She has participated and presented papers in seminars of national and international repute. She has a few published research papers to her credit. She was a recipient of the ICSSR Institutional Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. Earlier she had worked as Junior Consultant, Ecological Economics for the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE), New Delhi. She had also worked as a Research Associate in a UNFPA sponsored project.

Dr. Sonali Mukherjee (Associate Fellow) has extensively worked on Gender and Development issues. She has done her doctoral research among the Bison-horn Maria of Bastar region of Chattishgarh State from the University of Delhi, Delhi. She was a Research Associate in the Women’s Studies Programme, JNU where she worked on two projects, a. Gender and Urban Governance, sponsored by UNIFEM, New Delhi and b. Adverse Sex- Ratio, sponsored by ACTIONAID, New Delhi. As a Research Associate she organized various workshops as well. She was also an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi where she taught Sociology, Gender and Human Rights. As an Assistant Professor she organized and conducted education trips for the Sociology Honours Students. She has also taught Social Anthropology at IGNOU, New Delhi. She has developed a course on development for University of Victoria, Canada. She has also presented various research papers in many national and international journals and seminars. Her research interests include Gender and Sustainable Development, Gender and Governance, Adverse Sex ratio, Gender Mainstreaming, Women’s Livelihood, Women’s Property Rights, Participatory Governance, Citizenship, Social Accountability, Research Methodology, Social Movement. She has 15 years of fieldwork experience among various tribes and caste communities.