Amit Prakash is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier, he has served as Assistant Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He holds Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been awarded a number of academic honours and scholarships, including Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi and the Felix Scholarship for studying for Ph.D. at SOAS. He has published widely in the areas of politics of development; dynamics of socio-political and ethnic identity mobilisation and its inter-linkages with the processes of public policy; Indian politics; governance and development; and, global governance. Presently, he is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Governance for India: Empirical Evidence from 20 States, under contract with Routledge India.

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E-mail: amit@mail.jnu.ac.in
Contact Numbers: +91 11 2090 8826(O) || +91 11 2674 1298 (R)

1.Tribal Rights in Jharkhand

Anup Dhar is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore. He is the Coordinator of CUSP@CSCS – an applied research programme titled ‘Culture-Subjectivity-Psyche: Rethinking Mental Health’, and Research Coordinator of the Integrated Science Education Initiative of the Higher Education (HE) Cell at CSCS. He is also the Convenor, Academic Committee, CSCS. He has published books and articles in the areas of development of third world in the era of globalisation, dislocation and resettlement in development, and cultural transition. His forthcoming publication is Global Capitalism and the World of the Third (co-authored with A. Chakrabarti and S. Cullenberg), Worldview, New Delhi.

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E-mail: anup@cscs.res.in ; dhar.anup@gmail.com
Contact Numbers:  +91 33 397 3300 (R) || +91 9480258048   (mobile)

Ashutosh Kumar is Reader in Indian Politics at the department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He earlier taught as a Lecturer at the department of Political Science, University of Jammu. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the ISSS, University of Tampere, Finland and at CDD, Lagos, Nigeria. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has been awarded a number of academic honours and scholarships, including Junior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi and Ford Foundation Fellowship under South-South Faculty Exchange Programme for two months at Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Lagos, Nigeria, November-December 2004. His research interests lie in the areas of state politics with specialisation in the politics of Punjab and Kashmir. Presently, he is working on a book manuscript titled Regions within Regions: Rethinking State Politics in India, under review process with Routledge India.

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E-mail: ashutosh_chd@hotmail.com;ashutosh_chd2002@yahoo.co.in
Contact Numbers: +91 9815084030  (mobile)

2.Dissonance between Economic Reform & Democracy

Badri Narayan Tiwari is social historian and cultural anthropologist and currently Associate Professor of social and cultural anthropology at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. He has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1998-99), the Indian Council of Social Science Research (1995) and the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (1989-93). He has also been Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands (2002) and HGIS Fellow at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (2001). He was a recipient of the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004-05) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2005-06). His interests lie in popular culture, social and anthropological history, dalit and subaltern issues and the relationship between power and culture. He has written a number of articles both in English and Hindi. His recent publication is Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation, Sage Publications, New Delhi.

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E-mail: bntiwari@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91 9450613293 (mobile)

2.Honour Violence & Conflicting Narratives: A Study of Myth & Reality

Benjamin Zachariah is Reader in South Asian History [Modern south Asia; imperialism] at University of Sheffield having previously taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, the University of Sussex, the University of East London, and Presidency College, Calcutta. His research interests centre on the social and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular the intellectual history of development in its late colonial, postcolonial and Cold War contexts; interactions between metropolitan and Indian ideas; and political culture, political rhetoric and standards of political legitimacy in colonial and postcolonial India.

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Dipankar Sinha is Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta, and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). He is on the editorial board of the US-based Global Media Journal (Indian Edition) and Ekak Matra, a well-known Bengali ‘little magazine’. He specialises in communicative modes of globalisation, governance and development, and media-technology-democracy interface. His essay Strategies for a New Information Society in Brazil and India received an international award in the year 2002 for being the best article. His article on the role of literacy in the knowledge revolution was awarded by the Human Resource Development Ministry, Government of India, in 2001. His recent publication is Self-Help Groups in West Bengal: Challenges of Development and Empowerment (2008).

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E-mail: sinhadipankar2007@gmail.com
Contact Number: +91 033 2441 6382

2.'e' Anyway?: Critical Reflections on the e-Governance Roadmap in Andhra Pradesh

3.Information Technology & Citizen Participation: Macro-Lessons-from a Micro-Study

Kalpana Kannabiran is Chairperson of the Chityala Ailamma Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, set up by Asmita Resource Centre for Women. She was Professor of Sociology at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. She was the Chair of RC32 (Women in Society) of the International Sociological Association from 2002-2006 and General Secretary of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies in 1998-2000. She was a member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunity Commission, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, 2007-2008, and is currently member of the Expert Group on Legal Education Reform in Kerala, Government of Kerala. Apart from a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi she received the Rockefeller Humanist in Residence Fellowship at Hunter College, CUNY 1992-1993 and VKRV Rao Award for Social Science Research in the field Social Aspects of Law in 2003 from the Indian Council for Social Science Research. Her areas of specialisation are sociology of law, jurisprudence and gender studies. Most recently, she has co-edited, Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Essays on Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights (2008), Sage Publications, New Delhi.

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E-mail: kalpana.kannabiran@gmail.com
Contact Numbers: +91 40 27733251 (O) ||+91 40 27733853 (R)

Manish K. Jha is Associate Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He teaches courses on Community Organisation and Development Practice, Social Action, Rural Society and State. He has been coordinator of Post graduate in Child Rights programme at TISS. Recently he was involved in an extensive training programme for development facilitators who are involved in UNICEF funded development programmes. Dr. Jha is a visiting Commonwealth Fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His research interest includes human rights and human security concerns, social unrest in Bihar, role of Naxalite groups and caste based private militia. He has been involved in evaluation of resettlement projects and impact assessment of Government programmes as also review of some of the reputed NGOs. He has also researched on impact of development projects on urban poor and disaster and its impact on vulnerable communities. He has been actively involved in relief in reconstruction process in disaster situations like - Gujarat earthquake, tsunami in Andaman and Nicobar Island and Bihar floods.

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Email: manishj@tiss.edu ; jhamanishk19@gmail.com
Contact Numbers: +91-22-25525472 (O) || +91-9821196890   (mobile)

Parthasarathi Banerjee is Director of NISTADS, New Delhi. He was Post-doctoral fellow at SUNY, New York; Associate at CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; Visiting professor at EHESS, Paris; and Senior most Japan Foundation Fellow at University of Tokyo.

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Email: psb_nist@yahoo.com
Contact Numbers: +91 11 2584 6014 (Office)

Suhit Kumar Sen is now a Senior Researcher at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He has previously worked as an academic in various institutions, most recently at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He has also been a journalist and an editor in a number of publishing houses, including Oxford University Press. His research interests are principally in the area of post-independence politics and political economy. His doctoral dissertation was on the transition from colonial to constitutional government, mainly in the context of UP.

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Email: suhit@mcrg.ac.in
Contact Numbers: +91 33 2337 0408 (Office)

Ranabir Samaddar is the director and a founder of the Calcutta Research Group (CRG) and its journal, Refugee Watch. He was earlier a professor of South Asia Studies, and subsequently the founder-director of the Peace Studies Programme at the South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Kathmandu. Known for his critical studies on contemporary issues of justice, human rights, and popular democracy in the context of post-colonial nationalism, trans-border migration, community history, and technological restructuring in South Asia, he has served on various commissions and study groups on issues such as partitions, critical dictionary on globalisation, patterns of forced displacement and the institutional practices of refugee care and protection in India, rights of the minorities and forms of autonomy, technological modernization, and occupational health and safety. He is also the editor-in-chief of the South Asian Peace Studies Series.

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Email: ranabir@mcrg.ac.in
Contact Numbers: +91-33-2337 0408 (O)

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Sujata Dutta Hazarika is a sociologist by specialisation. She has been actively involved in research in North East India. Her area of Interest ranges from diverse issues of gender, ethnicity, media, governance, peace and conflict studies and sustainable development of North East India. She has been involved in a number of projects and publications both national and international exploring issues of governance, 73^rd Amendment in Assam, internal displacement, and sustainability. She began her career as the founding faculty of sociology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati and presently is in charge of NECRD (North East Centre For Research and Development), IGNOU - a recent initiative taken by Indira Gandhi National Open University to create a long term think-tank and research body dedicated to North East India. She has been awarded the Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship for the year 2010-2011 to work on the Eco-Village Initiatives in United States.

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E-mail: sujata@ignou.ac.in
Contact Numbers: 09864027567

Sutirtha Bedajna is a Research and Programme Associate at Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He is pursuing M.Phil. in South and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Calcutta. He holds M.A. in South and Southeast Asian Studies from University of Calcutta and M.A. in Economics from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta. He has been awarded the University Potential for Excellence Project Fellowship of University Grants Commission, New Delhi for the period of one year (2007-08) and again for six months (2009).  His research interests lie in the issues of environmental economics, collective environmental sustainability in regionalism, environmental governance in India, and challenges before environmental governance in the era of globalisation. His forthcoming publication is ‘Post Independence Environmentalism in India: A Journey through Five Year Plans’ which is likely to be published in the Fourth Biennial Conference Volume of Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies (IAAPS) in 2010.

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E-mail: sutirtha@mcrg.ac.in ; bedajnas@gmail.com
Contact Numbers: +91 9433529703   (mobile) ||  +91 033 2497 0759 (R)

Swarna Rajagopalan is an independent Chennai-based scholar working as a writer and consultant. She is also the founder of Prajnya Initiatives. She holds Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was previously educated at the University of Bombay (Elphinstone College) and Syracuse University. Her research interests lie in the issues of the intersections and interstices of international relations, government, identity and security. Her recent publication is “Silver Linings: Natural Disasters, International Relations and Political Change in South Asia, 2004-5”, Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 22 ed. 4, December 2006.

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E-mail:  swarnar@gmail.com; chaitanyaconsult@gmail.com
Contact Numbers: +91  9840079133 (mobile)

2.Conceptualizing Security, Securing Women

3.Secularism in India