CURRICULUM VITAE AJAY DANDEKAR PRESENT JOB POSITION Professor, School of Social Sciences, Central University Gujarat, PROFESSIONAL

EXPERTISE As a Researcher, Evaluator and Policy Analyst in following fields: Agrarian Crisis in Indian Context Pastoralism and Pastoral Nomadism in South Asia Extreme Left Insurgency Movement in Tribal India Denotified communities and nomadic communities: Rights and Issues Oral Narratives of the Nomadic Communities Alternatives in paradigms of integrated development model in the field of rural development Development processes and Tribal and Marginalised groups. Pastoralism and contemporary issues in South Asian Context Political economy of Development Programme Restructuring in Developmental Studies Early Medieval History

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Ph.D. (1994): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi ( Partly Completed at the University of Heidelberg ), Centre for Historical Studies Specialisation: PASTORALISM Topic: Nature of Pastoralism in Circa 8th to 14th Century M. Phil (1989): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Specialisation: Pastoralism M. A. (1984): Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore History B.A. (1982): Agra University HONOURS AND AWARDS Awarded University Grants Commission (UGC) sponsored Junior and Senior Research Fellowship (1987-1992). 1998- Professor K. T. M. Hegde Fellowship. Conferred by the Bhasha Research and Publication Center, Baroda, in the field of Archaeology. 1995- Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi. Subject: The Warlis in the Wisdom Tradition. 1994- Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi. Subject: HeroStones of the Semi arid belt of Maharashtra 1992-93- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship: To study at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT July 2008 to December 2010 Institute of Rural Management Anand. 2006-January to June 2008 DAIICT, Gandhinagar 2003-August November 2005 Professor, Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Rural Campus, Tuljapur. 1996-2003 July: Senior Research Fellow of Development Studies at the Social Science Centre, St. Xaviers College, Mumbai. 1995-96: Lecturer at the Deccan College, Post Graduate Research Institute, Pune. Courses Taught: Ethno Archaeology; Political History of Ancient India Visiting Faculty- NID (National Institute of Design) As a Visiting Faculty at NID Ahemadabad in the PG and the UG programme for the last five years.

PUBLICATIONS i) Books Ajay Dandekar. Mythos and the Logos of the Warlis: A tribal worldview. Concept Publications. New Delhi.1998. Shereen Ratnagar and Ajay Dandekar. Bharatiya Itihas ke Strota:I Eklaivvya. New Delhi.2000 Shereen Ratnagar and Ajay Dandekar. Bharatiya Itihas ke Strota:II Eklaivvya. New Delhi. in press.

ii) Articles Dandekar Ajay, The Issue of Denotified Tribes in Independent India. IRMA Working Paper No 214. 2009. Dandekar Ajay, Narratives from the Pastoral and the Nomadic Worlds of the Deccan. In Micheal Ohaodha ed., The Nomadic Subject: Post Colonial Identities on the Margins. Cambridge Scholars Press. United Kingdom. 2007. Dandekar Ajay. Hegemony of Silence. The denotified tribes of India. In Michael Hayes Thomas Acton ed. Counter-Hegemony and the Irish Other. Cambridge Scholars Press. UK 2006 Dandekar Ajay. The Tribal World. In Angana Chatterjee and Shabnam Hashmi edited Dark Leaves of the Present. ANHAD. New Delhi.2005 Dandekar Ajay and S Narwade, Farmers suicides and Roots of Agrarian Crisis. NIRD. Hyderabad. 2005 Dandekar Ajay, The killing Fields. Indian Journal of Social Work. 66(3), July 2005, pp.345-353 Mumbai, 2005. Dandekar Ajay. The state cult and legitimacy. In Satish Saberwal and S Varma ed., Traditions in Motion. Oxford University Press. New Delhi. 2004

Dandekar Ajay. In the Name of Pastoralism. In Rudolf Heredia and Shereen Ratnagar Ed. Mobile and the Marginalized: Perspectives from the Past. Manohar Publications. New Delhi. 2003 Dandekar Ajay, "Gunhegar Jamaticha Kayda, 1871", Parivartanacha Vatsaru, 8, 2003, pp. 22-23, 28 Dandekar Ajay Kaba and Baji. In G.N. Devy ed. Painted Words. An Anthology of Tribal Literature. Penguins. 2002. - Mahabharata. In G.N. Devy ed., Painted Words. An Anthology of Tribal Literature. Penguins. 2002. Dandekar Ajay, The Hero and his context. Chanted Narratives: The Living KathaVachana Tradition. Edited by Molly Kaushal. New Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts for D.K. Printworld, 2001. Rudolf Heredia, Ajay Dandekar The Warli Social History. Economic and Political Weekly. December 2000. Dandekar Ajay, The Warlis and the Dhangars in the Context of the Commons. In Kapila Vatsyana ed., Culture and Ecology. Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and UNESCO publication. 1998. Dandekar Ajay. Sati and Hero Stones. In Jane S. Turner ed., The Dictionary of Art. Macmillan. London. 1996. Dandekar Ajay, Landscapes in Conflict: Flocks, hero-stones and the Cult in Early Medieval Maharashtra. In S. Ratnagar ed., Studies in History. JulyDecember, 1991, New Delhi, pp.301-324.

Course Curriculum writings for IGNOU (2006-2007) Editor of IGNOU M.A. Course - Evolution of Social Structures in India Through the Ages. The Units written are as under: Reconstructing Ancient Society with special reference to sources, regions, gender and languages. New Urban classes: traders and artisans. Extension of agricultural settlements (land rights, Agrarian classes and social status) Chaityas, Viharas and their interaction with tribal groups Transition to early medieval societies : Issues and problems The problem of urban decline : agrarian expansion : land grants and growth of intermediaries Proliferation and consolidation of castes and jatis Religion in Society Units Edited and the Course editor are as under: BLOCK-1 INTRODUCTORY Unit 1 Reconstructing Ancient Society with special reference to sources, regions, gender and languages Unit 2 Hunting gathering, early farming society, pastoralism Unit 3 Harappan civilization: Other neolithic and chalcolithic cultures BLOCK-2 CULTURES IN TRANSITION Unit 1 Societies reflected in vedic literature

Kinship, Varna and Jati, ritual forms of property, ideology and social structure Unit 2 Iron age cultures Unit 3 Socio-religious ferment in north-India : Buddhism and Jainism Unit 4 Emergence of Buddhist central and peninsular India BLOCK-3 EARLY HISTORIC SOCIETIES : 6TH CENTURY-4TH CENTURY A.D. Unit 1 New Urban classes: traders and artisans. Extension of agricultural settlements (land rights, Agrarian classes and social status) Unit 2 Chaityas, Viharas and their interaction with tribal groups Unit 3 Early Tamil society. Cult of hero worship. Regions and their cultures. Unit 4 Marriage and family life. Notions of untouchability. Changing patterns in Varna and Jati. BLOCK-4 EARLY MEDIEVAL SOCIETIES

Unit 1 Transition to early medieval societies: Issues and problems Unit 2 The problem of urban decline: agrarian expansion: land grants and growth of intermediaries Unit 3 Proliferation and consolidation of castes and jatis Unit 4 Religion in Society Ashokas Policy of Dhamma. EHI-02-History. Unit-21. Indira Gandhi National Open University. Delhi. Other Academic Writings: Reports, Books and articles related to Agriculture and Planning Rural Development Dandekar Ajay. Perspective Plan for Panchamahal District. 2008. Dandekar Ajay, The Structure Cotton Cultivation In Maharashtra. Centre for Policy Research. New Delhi. 2007. Dandekar Ajay et al., Causes of Farmers Suicides in Maharashtra; An Enquiry. Report submitted to Mumbai High Court. Bhasha Sangharsh Shatak March 2005. in press. Dandekar Ajay et al, Bali raja: An enquiry in the Nature of Agrarian Crisis in Vidarbha. Bhasha Sangharsha Shatak, 2006. in press. Ajay Dandekar, S. Panda and N. Kulkarni. Conceptualizing a Womens Resource Centre: A study of Watersheds in Ahmednagar District. I and II. Social Science Centre, St. Xaviers College, Bombay. 2000. Ajay Dandekar and S. Panda. Towards Hope: Entrepreneurial Development in Rural Ahmednagar. 2001. Ajay Dandekar. Swayam Panda and Niranjan Kulkarni. In Search of a community: A study of Kalamb Watershed, district Ahmednagar. Social Science Centre, St. Xaviers College. Evaluation of Kalamb Watershed, submitted to Water Organization Trust. Ahmednagar. 1998.

Reports and Evaluation studies on Education and Rights in Rural Areas

G.N. Devy, Rudolf Heredia, Ajay Dandekar et al. Waiting For Freedom. I and II. A report on the status of the Denotified and Nomadic Tribes in India. Prime Ministers office. 2006. December. Vijay Kulkarni and Ajay Dandekar, Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Dist. Beed. MSCERT, Pune.2005. Vijay Kulkarni and Ajay Dandekar, Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Dist. Nanded. MSCERT, Pune.2005. Vijay Kulkarni and Ajay Dandekar, Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Dist. Osmanabad. MSCERT, Pune.2005. Vijay Kulkarni and Ajay Dandekar, Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Dist. Latur. MSCERT, Pune.2005. Vijay Kulkarni and Ajay Dandekar, Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Dist. Parbhani. MSCERT, Pune.2005. Vijay Kulkarni and Ajay Dandekar, Evaluation of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Dist. Hingoli. MSCERT, Pune.2005. Ajay Dandekar and Vijay Kulkarni, Evaluation of Janshala Programme. UNDP.Ministry of Human Resource. New Delhi.2004. Ajay Dandekar, Aninidita Mukhopadhyaya et al., A Study of the De- Notified Tribes of Maharashtra: Phase II, 2002. Social Science Centre, St. Xaviers College. Submitted to the National Education Group. Delhi. Ajay Dandekar, Aninidita Mukhopadhyaya et al., A Study of De-Notified Tribes of Maharashtra: Phase I. 2001. Social Science Centre, St. Xaviers College. Submitted to the National Education Group, Delhi. Ajay Dandekar et al, A Survey of Educational Backwardness in Satara District: A report. National Education Group. New Delhi.2000 Ajay Dandekar et al. Educational backwardness in the region of Beed: A Report. National Education Group. Pune.1999. Ajay Dandekar and Rajaram Zagade. The Dhangars and the Lamans: An ethnographic Study. National Education Group. New Delhi. 1998. Ajay Dandekar and Swayam Panda. Educational Backwardness in the regions of Manmad and Nagar: A report. National Education Group. New Delhi.1997 Ajay Dandekar and Swayam Panda, Education amongst the Mahadeva Kolis. Maharashtra Prabodhan Seva Mandal. 1997. RESEARCH PROJECTS PESA and Left Wing Extremism: Challenges in Governance.2010 Third Party Evaluation of the Wadi Programme. Panchamahal District. 2009. Action Research on Skill set Gaps Gujarat State, DAIICT and Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad. 2007 Action Research on Farmers Suicides in Maharashtra for Mumbai High Court. 2005 Action Research CII and TISS, on State of the Economy and Skill set gaps, Maharashtra.

Evaluation of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Govt. of Maharashtra for Marathwada Region (Six Districts). 2005 Conceptualised and authored the Ten Levels of Intervention Model of the Action Programme for developing an alternative model of people centred, rights based model of development, initiated in 2005 Action Research in Drought Management in Osmanabad District and other related Campaigns and Training and Capacity Building Activities for the Youth from selected villages and NGOs in Osmanabad District, Rural Campus, and TISS. 2004 Campaign on the Paani Suraksha Abhiyan in 8 blocks of the Osmanabad district with an objective on the creating awareness on the scarcity of the water resources, sustainable use of the water, and traditional water harvesting methods through community participation, initiated in 2004. Education Evaluation Programme for the Govt. of India, Ministry of HRD in the Tribal areas of Maharashtra. 2004 District Plan for Human Development, Inputs for Osmanabad district, UNDP and Planning Commission, Government of India, 2003. Manthan: Rural Youth for Governance and Development, Rural Campus, TISS. Evaluation of the Watershed Programme for WOTR, and for Indo German Watershed programme in Maharashtra. 1996-2000. Evaluation of the National Education Group, Miserior, Education Programme in Manmad, Beed, Satara, Pune, Ahmednagar and Nasik Districts. 1996-2000. Evaluation of the Status of Denotified and Nomadic Tribes, Maharashtra. Miserior, 1999-2002.

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS The World Economic History Congress. Paper Presentation in a Session on Mountain Pastoralism and Modernity. Utrecht. Netherlands. 2009 International Pre Conference on Mountain Pastoralism and Modernity at ICMOD at Kathmandu from 6th to the 10th of January 2009. Paper presented on From the Centre to the Periphery-Pastoralism in Deccan: a story of decline. Regional Workshop on the issue of Denotified Tribes in India. Organised by the New Education Group. Pune 12th and 13th November. 2008 UNSECO and Deshkaal Society conference on Exploring cultural practices and substantial rural livelihoods: Situating Cultural Practices of Marginal communities on 30th November 2008 to 1st December 2008, New Delhi. Paper presented on The Context of Being: The status of Denotified Tribes in India. National Meet of Adivasi and Denotified Tribes. IGNCA. 2005

International Conference on Social Management of Water. Tiruvanathapuram. CIRAD, EHESS (Paris), Universities of Ruhunu and Colombo. 2004. International Conference on Nomadic and Denotified Tribes. IGNCA. New Delhi. 2004 Evaluation workshop on the Issue of Dalit identity. TISS Rural Campus. Tuljapur. 2002. Conference On Translating Bhasha. On December 24th 2008. Vadodara. A key note address. Conference on Land Reforms Organised by the National Institute of Rural Development at Hyderabad on 4th and 5th October 2008. A Workshop on Violence Mitigation and Peace Amelioration with specific reference to the Identity Construction of Shivaji, organized by the Oxfam India. Satara. 2002. A Workshop on Violence Mitigation and Peace Amelioration with specific reference to the Violence and Peace in South Asia. April.2003. Patna. 2001: National Seminar on Dalit Identity. Centre for Social Studies. Surat. 2001: International Workshop on Defining Traditions. Sontheimer Cultural Association and Social Science Centre, Satara, 2000: The Publication Workshop, Sahitya Akademi, Baroda. 2000: International Seminar on Marginal Communities. Indira Gandhi National Museum of Man. Bhopal. 2000: Guest Lecture. National Institute of Design. Ahemdabad. February. 1999: Surubhi Seminar on Tribal Cultures. Surubhi and Bhasha. Tejgarh. Baroda. 1999: Publication Workshop. Sahitya Akademi and Bhasha. Baroda. 1999: National Seminar on Pastoralism. Social Science Centre and Sontheimer Cultural Association. Pune. 1999: Guest Lecture at the National Institute of Design. Ahmedabad. 1998: National Seminar on Oral literature. Sahitya Akademi. Vidya Sagar University. Midnapore. West Bengal. 1997: National seminar on oral traditions. Chota Udaipur. 1997: National Conference on oral and tribal literatures, Sahitya Akademi. Tejgarh. 1997: International conference on Oral Epics. Unesco and Ignca. N. Delhi. 1996: UNESCO Conference on Culture and Ecology, IGNCA, New Delhi. 1996: Sahitya Akademi workshop on tribes and culture. Baroda. 1996: Sahitya Akademi conference on Tribal languages, at Saputara. 1995: Unesco Workshop on Culture and Ecology, New Delhi. 1994: First Sontheimer Memorial Conference, organized by the South Asia Institute, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and the Sontheimer Cultural Association, at Pune. 1991: International Workshop on Pastoralism, organized at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

DATE OF BIRTH: 16th of June 1963 ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION Prof. Ajay Dandekar IRMA Institute of Rural Management Anand P.B. No 60 Anand. 388001 India. E-mail: ajay@irma.ac.in Alternate Mail: ajayd16@gmail.com