Prof Nandini Sundar | Small Voices of the Constitution | March 11, 2024 | NALSAR University of Law

Professor Sundar is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her recent publications include, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar (Verso 2019), which has been translated into Gujarati, Tamil and Telugu; and four edited volumes, Reading India: Selections from Economic and Political Weekly 1991-2017 (co-edited, Orient Blackswan, 2019). She was awarded the M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize, 2003, the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (Social Anthropology) in 2010, the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research, 2016 and the Malcolm Adiseshiah Prize for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, 2017.
This is not the first time NALSAR has had the honour of hosting Prof Sundar; in March 2022, she delivered a lecture as part of a panel on the topic- Compliant Courts and Undue Process: Weaponizing the 'Rule of Law. The lecture on Monday will be based on her work on the Fifth Schedule titled- ‘We Will Teach India Democracy’: Indigenous Voices in Constitution Making.