Denzil Saldanha
Denzil Saldanha
Denzil Saldanha was formerly Professor, Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His research interests have been in the areas of social movements; voluntary social action groups and development organizations; and elementary, non-formal and adult education. He has been teaching, researching and contributing to policy in these areas for about four decades. He has served as a member of state and national level committees, on the board of several academic and developmental institutions and organizations and as a consultant to government funding agencies and international organizations. His publications cover the interest areas mentioned above, some recent books being Education of Adolescents for Development in India: The Case of Doosra Dashak, 2007 and Civil Society Processes and the State: The BGVS and the Literacy Campaigns, 2010. A running concern in his writings has been an attempt to understand the role of human subjectivity in processes of social transformation.
Identity Within Hegemonic Process
This study attempts to identify some key cultural practices, belief systems and aesthetic expressions, as illustrative cases, that might be contributing to present-day Adivasi ethnic identity; unco...
Kadeeja Mumtas
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Vijay Kumar Thakur
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Ram Dayal Munda
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Ismat Chughtai
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Darwis Khudori
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Vivek Chibber
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V. Gordon Childe
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B.R. Ambedkar
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Ranjani Murali
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Michelle Williams
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Rostislav A. Ulyanovsky
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Gulzar
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Assaf Kfoury
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Aishwary Kumar
Aishwary Kumar is a professor of political philosophy and intellectual history in the Department of History of Consciousness at University of California-Santa Cruz, and Senior Fellow in Human Right
