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.

Dr. Hari Mohan Mathur 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 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 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.

Prof. Praful Bidwai holds the Durgabai Deshmukh Chair in Social Development, Equity and Human Security at CSD. He an independent political analyst and columnist, a social science researcher, and an activist on issues of global justice, development, labour, peace, human rights and the environment. He has written and contributed to several books. His latest book, The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future (Orient BlackSwan), was published in November 2011. He has held many academic positions, including a Senior Fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and was Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass, USA (1992-93). He co-authored, with Achin Vanaik, South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the Future of Global Disarmament: (Oxford University Press) 1999.

Bidwai has been a member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research governing body, a member of the Court of Jawaharlal Nehru University and of the Executive Councils of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and Rajiv Gandhi (formerly Arunachal Pradesh) University, Itanagar. He has been a Fellow since 1987 of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, an international fellowship of scholar-activists exploring alternative approaches to development, globalisation, environmental protection and international conflicts. He was a Visiting Professor at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2007-8). He co-edited Labour Movement in India: Documents 1941-1947, 2 vols (Indian Council of Historical Research) 2006, and has written extensively on social movements and the Left parties. He is currently working on a full-length study of the crisis of the Indian Left.

Prof. Imrana Qadeer (Visiting Professor) started her professional career as a pediatrician. She then moved to public health by Joining the newly set up Jawaharlal Nehru University where she taught for 35 years and retired as a professor. Since then she has been J. P. Naik Senior Fellow at the CWDS and now a Senior Fellow of CSD. Her area of interest are Organisational issues in health services in South Asia with a special focus on India, social epidemiology and political economy of health, women's health and research methodology with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research methodologies.  Other than the teaching, research guidance and research activities at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, she worked with independent grass root organisations and supported their research and service delivery efforts. She has also worked with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the planning Commission, Population Commission and the advisory and monitoring bodies for the National Rural Health Mission

Dr. Prashant Kumar Trivedi 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.

Dr. Sonali Mukherjee has worked on gender, tribes 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 an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi where she taught Sociology, Gender and Human Rights. 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 worked in Women’s Studies Programme, JNU. She has presented various research papers in many national and international journals and seminars. Her research interests include tribal studies, gender and rural development, gender and governance, adverse sex ratio, women’s livelihood, women’s property rights, violence on women, social accountability and research methodology. She has 17 years of fieldwork experience among various tribes and caste communities.

Ms. Poornima Joshi
 

Dr. Gopal Krishna Thakur is an educationist with over two decades of experience in the area of school education, teacher education, educational research and program evaluation. He has done his Doctorate in Education from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Prior to his Doctoral work, he did his M.Sc. in Chemistry, M.B.A. in Human Resource Management (IGNOU), and B.Ed., M.Ed. & M.Phil. in Education from Delhi University. Before joining CSD, he has served as Principal of a Teacher Education Institution (of Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut for over eight years), Lecturer in Education, Teacher in secondary schools, Evaluator of the Project ‘European Block Grant’, and as Consultant of a multinational organization, based in Liaoning Province of China. His research interests include School Education, Teacher Education, Science Education, and Curriculum Development & Evaluation. He has been associated with University of Delhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., U.S.A., Eklavya, Bhopal, Save the Children, Care India, and many other Govt. and Non Govt. organisations, in various capacities. He has presented and published research papers in a number of national and international seminars, conferences and journals. He is a life member of Indian Association of Teacher Educators & All India Association of Educational Research. Besides, he is member of ‘Peace Education Online Committee’, Columbia, U.S.A., ‘Society for Human Resource Management’, Alexandria, U.S.A., & ‘The Psychology Network’, York, U.K. .

Name Ms. Anamika Priyadarshini Designation Senior Research Associate Qualification MS, International Development Email anamika@csdindia.org

Ms. Anamika Priyadarshini did her Masters in International Development from Cornell University and is currently pursuing PhD from the Department of Global Gender Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo. Her doctoral dissertation intends to retrieve the history of nineteenth century Bihar’s women home-based workers. She is associated with home-based workers' international network HomeWorkers Worldwide and has been working to underscore these workers’ issues since 2001. Her Masters thesis was also on women silk spinners, a group of home-based workers, of Bhagalpur. Anamika has about four years experience of teaching undergraduate students of SUNY Buffalo and masters students of the Centre for Development Studies, Central University of Bihar. Furthermore, she has worked with national and international non-governmental organizations as a development professional, researcher and trainer for over seven years. Her past experience provided her an opportunity to understand the challenges of development and gender at grassroots and to represent them at the national and international platforms. Anamika is recipient of several prestigious international awards, including Margaret McNamara Foundation Fellowship, Ford Foundation Fellowship, SUNY’s Doctoral Fellowship and College Fellowship

Name Ms.Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan Designation Fellow Qualification Master degree in Development Studies Email vbalakrishnan@csdindia.org

Ms.Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan will develop the Council's research interest in childhoods and comparative perspectives on the evolving relationship with the State.  She began her career in journalism and over the past two decades, has worked on evidence-based social development programme design, management and research, both in India, and overseas. Her first book, Growing Up And Away, Narratives of Indian Childhoods, Memory, History, Identity was published by OUP, in winter 2011.