Orient Blackswan

The Adivasi Question

Launch

31 Jul 2012

Venue

New Delhi

Dr Reddy in conversation with sociologist Rajni Palriwala.

Professors Uma and Anand Chakravarti with Dr Reddy.

From left to right: Professors Satish Deshpande, Rajni Palriwala and Anand Chakravarti at the event.

Professors Gyanendra Pandey and Rajni Palriwala speak with Ms Vidya Rao of Orient BlackSwan, while Dr Mary E. John looks on.

Mr D. N. Ghosh, former chairman and managing director, State Bank of India, with Dr Reddy.

Invitees look through the books in the series.

Dr Reddy speaks with some members of the audience.

Economic Reforms and Growth in India edited by Pulapre Balakrishnan; Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays edited by Rohan D’Souza; Village Society edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and The Adivasi Question: Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood edited by Indra Munshi.

The panellists for the evening were (from left to right) Dr C. Rammanohar Reddy, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly; Professor Surinder S. Jodhka, Chairperson, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr Mary E. John, Senior Fellow, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, and Professor Ravi Srivastava, Professor, Centre for the Development of Regional Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Dr Reddy chairs the session.

Professor Surinder S. Jodhka speaks on the subject.

Dr Mary E. John explains why is it important to make available the translations of the articles published in the EPW to a wider readership.

Professor Ravi Srivastava praised EPW for taking the initiative to get these readers published.

The audience included Mukul Sharma and Professors Gyanendra Pandey and Sudhir Chandra.

… and also Professors Rajeev Bhargava and Satish Deshpande, among others.