Dr. Rajesh Dev
Associate Professor

Anthropology of Law, Democratic Theory, Politics of Ethnic Identity, Politics of Indigeneity, Special Area Focus: North-East India.

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

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

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