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Dr. Rajesh Dev
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Anthropology of Law, Democratic Theory, Politics of Ethnic Identity, Politics of Indigeneity, Special Area Focus: North-East India.

rajeshdev.du@gmail.com, rdev@polscience.du.ac.in

Work Experience

  • 2010 - Present:   Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
  • 2005 - 2007:      Guest Faculty, Dept. of Law, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India.
  • 1998 - 2010:       Lecturer, Women’s College, Department of Political Science, Meghalaya, India. Read More

Publications

  • Ethnonarratives: Identity & Experience in Northeast India.  2006. Anshah (Shipra Imprint) (Co-edited)
  • Ethnic Identity and Democracy: Electoral Politics Northeast India. 2006. Regency Publications. (Co-edited)
  • Institutionalising Social Policies in the Margins: A comparative study of ‘narega’ in Meghalaya and Jharkhand in Louise Tillin et.al. (eds.), Politics of Welfare: Comparisons across Indian States. Oxford University Press. N. Delhi. 2015. Read More 

Awards/ Fellowships/ Projects

  • First President of India Sri Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal for General Proficiency by NEHU (1995).
  • Commendable Performance Award by the American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad (1996).
  • Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington D.C. (2008 - 2009). Read More

Conference and Seminars

  • 2015: NREGA in Indigenous Contexts: A Legal Anthropology at the International Seminar on Law, Institutions & Political Philosophy, University of Yale and University of Delhi, August 21-22, 2015, Delhi.
  • 2015: Community Forest Management and the Paradoxes of Indigenous Selfhood at a Roundtable on Tribal Worldviews, ICSSR-NERC, Shillong, March 30-April 1, 2015.
  • 2014: Public Policy and State in a Peripheral Region of India at the Roundtable on Emerging States, University of Bordeaux, November 28-29, 2014. Read More

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