Honorary Fellows

  • Ashis Nandy

    Ashis Nandy, sociologist and clinical psychologist, has over the years strayed into areas outside formal social sciences and normal academic concerns. His research interests centre on the political psychology of violence, cultures of knowledge, ut...

  • Bhikhu Parekh

    Bhikhu Parekh is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences, and a Emeritus Professor of political philosophy at the University of Westminster, UK. He was chair of the Runnymede Commission...

  • Charles Taylor

    Charles Taylor is one of the most eminent philosophers in the world. He was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University and Professor of Political Sciences and Philosophy at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada,...

  • Deepak Nayyar

    Deepak Nayyar is the Chairman of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and was, until recently, Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the.....

  • T. N. Madan

    T. N. Madan is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, and Docteur Honoris Causa of the University of Paris (Nanterre). He was...

  • Rajeev Bhargava

    Rajeev Bhargava has been at the Centre since 2005 and is currently the director of its newly launched Institute of Indian Thought. He was the Director of the centre from 2007-2014. He has been a Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawah...

  • Ravi Vasudevan

    Ravi Vasudevan works in the area of film and media history. With Ravi Sundaram, he directs Sarai, the CSDS media and urban studies programme. He is guest faculty in Film Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jadavpur University and Ambedkar Univ...

  • Shail Mayaram

    Shail Mayaram’s work straddles history, anthropology, philosophy and politics as also religious studies. She was Professor at the Centre, worked as its Acting Director during 2009-2010 and 2011 and was Co-Director of the M. S. Merian-R. Tagore I...

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