Ajay Dandekar did his Ph. D from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in early nineties. He has worked on the issue of Denotified and Nomadic Communities, and Pastoral Nomadic groups. He has done work on the agrarian crisis and farmers suicides. Lately his research interest has spilled over in the issues of resources and conflict in the tribal heartland and has contributed policy papers and writings on the same.

Educational Qualifications

• 1994 Ph.D. Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• 1989 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi M. Phil
• 1983 M. A. Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore
• 1981 B.A. Agra University

Work Experience

• 11/13 – Present Director, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
• 01/11 11/13 Dean, School of International Studies, Central University of Gujarat
• 01/11 11/13 Professor, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat
• 07/08 12/10 Associate Professor, Social Science Area, Institute of Rural Management Anand
• 01/06 06/08 Associate Professor, Social Sciences Area, DAIICT, Gandhinagar
• 08/03 11/05 Professor, Rural Development, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Rural Campus, Tuljapur
• 01/96 01/03 Senior Research Fellow of Development Studies at the Social Science Centre, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
• 07/95 07/96 Lecturer of Ethno Archaeology; Political History of Ancient Indi, Deccan College, Post Graduate Research Institute, Pune

Awards(Selected)

• 2010 International Visitor Leadership Programme: United States of America, 2010
• 1992 Awarded University Grants Commission (UGC) sponsored Junior and Senior Research Fellowship (1987-1992) Professor K. T. M. Hegde Fellowship. Conferred by the Bhasha Research and Publication Center, Baroda, in the field of Archaeology
• 1998 Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi. Subject: The Warlis in the Wisdom Tradition
• 1995 Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi. Subject: Hero-Stones of the Semi- arid belt of Maharashtra
• 1994 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship: To study at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, 1992-3