CONTRIBUTOR:

Surinder S. Jodhka

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor of Sociology

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for the Study of Social Systems

INSTITUTION:

Jawaharlal Nehru University

BIOGRAPHY:

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include the dynamics of rural transformations and agrarian change; social inequalities – old and new – and their reproduction; the social life of caste and the varied modes of its articulation in the contemporary Indian context. His research publications include The Indian Middle Class: Oxford India Short Introductions (Oxford University Press 2016, with Aseem Prakash) Caste in Contemporary India (Routledge 2015), Interrogating India’s Modernity (ed. Oxford University Press 2013); Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions (Oxford University Press 2012); Village Society (ed. Orient Blackswan 2012). He is among the first recipients of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, for the year 2012. Profile: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/jodhka/CV.pdf