Surinder Singh Jodhka | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Surinder Singh Jodhka

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for the Study of Social Systems,

School of Social Sciences

Room No

11, SSS-II

Off. Phone

011-26704429

Residence

011-26741451

jodhka@mail.jnu.ac.in, ssjodhka@yahoo.com

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/jodhka/CV.pdf

Qualifications

M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Social Inequality; Development Studies; Rural and Agrarian Change; Social Identities; Caste Studies.

Experience

Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi (2006-)
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, JNU, New Delhi (2001-2006)
Reader, Department of Sociology, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1998-2001)
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (1991-1998)
Associate Fellow, Centre for Social Studies, Surat (1990-1991)

Awards & Honours

Malcolm Adiseshiah award for distinguished contributions to Development Studies, 2024.
ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientist (Sociology) 2012.
Visiting Professor (ICCR Chair), University of Lund, Sweden. October 2012-June 2013.
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway. May-June 2005.
Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison: January-June 2002.
South Asian Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford: January- June 1997.
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow: Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom April-June 1996.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Country Coordinator, Religions and Development Research Programme (DFID- University of Birmingham) 2006-2011. Member, ‘The Global Network on Inequality’, Princeton University, Princeton, USA.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

‘Agrarian Studies and the Caste Conundrum’. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 11 (1): 1–23. 2022.

‘Why are the farmers of Punjab protesting?’. The Journal of Peasant Studies. Vol 48 (7): 1356-70. 2021

‘Kanshi Ram and the Making of Dalit Political Agency: Leadership Legacies and the Politics of Hissedari’. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 56 (3): 35-41. 2021.

‘Ascriptive hierarchies: Caste and its reproduction in contemporary India’. Current Sociology (Monograph 2016) Volume 64 (2): 228-43. 2016

‘Agrarian Changes in the Times of (Neo-liberal) ‘Crises’: Revisiting Attached Labour in Haryana Agriculture’. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol - XLVII No. 26-27, June 30, 2012. Pp. 5-13.

‘Caste and Politics’ in Nirja Jayal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta ed. Oxford Companion to Politics in India Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2010

‘Dalits in Business: Self-Employed Scheduled Castes in North-West India’ Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 45 (11) pp. 41-48 March 13-19, 2010

‘Agrarian Structures and their Transformations’ in Veena Das ed. Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. (Volume II) Delhi: New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003.

‘From ‘Book-View’ to ‘Field-View’: Social Anthropological: Constructions of the Indian Village’, Oxford Development Studies, Vol. 26 (3). Pp. 311-32. 1998.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Oxford Handbook of Caste. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2023. (co-edited with Jules Naudet)

The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Aleph Book Company. 2023.

India’s Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2019 (co-edited with Edward Simpson).

Caste in Contemporary India. (2nd edition) London and New Delhi: Routledge (first published 2015). 2018.

Contested Hierarchies, Persisting Influence: Caste and Power in 21st Century India. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 2018. (co-edited with James Manor)

The Indian Middle Class. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2016 (co-authored with Aseem Prakash).

Caste. Oxford India Short Introductions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012