Sundar, Nandini

Delhi University

GRIP Development Team

Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her current research interests are: constitutionalism, academic freedom, democracy, law, inequality, and agrarian ecologies. Recent publications include, The Burning Forest: India’s War against Maoists (Verso 2019), which has been translated into Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu; and four edited volumes, Reading India: Selections from Economic and Political Weekly 1991-2017 (co-edited, Orient Blackswan, 2019); The Scheduled Tribes and their India (OUP, 2016); Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development (co-edited, Sage 2014); and Inequality and Social Mobility in Post-Reform India, Special Issue of Contemporary South Asia (co-edited, 2016), as well as journal articles on democracy, authoritarianism and academic freedom.