Senior Fellow

Suresh Sharma has sought to understand, speak and write from the vantage points of a history of ideas and cultural anthropology. The tribal universe as a historical artefact and as a mode of seeing-knowing has been something of an abiding preoccupation.

His work seeks, among other things, to explore the subtle and deep play between distance and movement; its epistemic and aesthetic implications for living and imagination, both as historical experience and as anthropological pathos.

He has been a Consultant United Nations University, Tokyo (1983-86), Adviser, National Museum of Man, Bhopal, India a Senior Charles Wallace Fellow. Member Planning Group, Mahatma Gandhi Hindi International University, Wardha, India and Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India (1995-1997).

Two of his ongoing studies are Hinduism and the Colonial and Experience, a Comparative Reading of St Augustine’s Confessions and Gandhi’s Autobiography.

His books include Tribal Identity and the Modern World, Sage and UNU, 1994 and Vikas Ki Keemat (ed) (Price of Development) in Hindi 1986. A Critical Edition of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj, (with annotations, notes, and translations in Hindi and English) is forthcoming.