Surinder S. Jodhka

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities – old and new – and the processes of their reproduction. Empirical focus of his work has been the dynamics of caste; studies of agrarian social change and contemporary rural India; and the political sociology community identities. His recent publications include India’s Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions (edited with Edward Simpson 2019 OUP); Mapping the Elite: Power, Priviledge and Inequality (edited with Jules Naudet. OUP 2019). A Handbook of Rural India. 2018 Orient Blackswan (ed.). Contested Hierarchies: Caste and Power in 21st Century. Orient Blackswan (co-edited with James Manor) 2018. Inequality in Capitalist Societies. Routledge (co-authored with Boike Rehbien and Jesse Souza) 2018. The Indian Middle Class OUP 2016 (co-authored with Aseem Prakash); Caste in Contemporary India Routledge 2015; Interrogating India’s Modernity. OUP 2013 (ed.); Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions. OUP 2012. He is editor of the Routledge India book series on ‘Religion and Citizenship. He is among the first recipients of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, for the year 2012.

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