D N Dhanagare

Professor D. N. Dhanagare (11 June 1936 – 7 March 2017) was an Indian sociologist who specialised in farmers' movements and rural sociology.[1]

D. N. Dhanagare
Born(1936-06-11)11 June 1936
Washim, Maharashtra, India
Died7 March 2017(2017-03-07) (aged 80)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materNagpur University, India,
University of Massachusetts US, University of Sussex (U.K),

Dhanagare died of heart failure on 7 March 2017. He was survived by two sons.

Education

Dhanagare received his master's degree from Nagpur University and a D.Phil at the University of Sussex, UK.

Career

He was Vice-Chancellor of Shivaji University in Kohlapur.[2] Besides teaching in Agra University, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Pune University, Dhanagare has been the President of the Indian Sociological Society,[3] He was a Life Member of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Marathi Samajshastra Parishad, People's Union of Civil Liberties, Indian Association of Social Sciences and a Member of International Sociological Association. He was a Member Secretary of Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.

During 2012–2014, Dhanagare was a National Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla.[4]

Recognition

Dhanagare received the 2011 Indian Sociological Society Life Time Achievement Award.[5] He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and an I.C.H.R Fellowship. He was Visiting Asian Scholar at the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen (1983), UGC National Lecturer, Visiting Research Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and received a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute's Visiting Fellowship in Canada.

Publications
  • 1975. Agrarian movements and Gandhian politics. Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University
  • 1983. Peasant Movements in India: 1920-1950. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • 1998. Themes And Perspectives in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
  • 2014* The Writings of D. N. Dhanagare"', Orient Blackswan
  • 2016* "'Populism and Power':Farmers' movement in western India'" 1980–2014, Routledge : India

References
  1. "UGC Award for D N Dhanagare". Dailly News & Analysis. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  2. "Former Vice-Chancellor's". Shivaji University. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  3. Office bearers over the years Archived 6 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Indian Sociological Society
  4. "National Fellows in Position". Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  5. About us Archived 17 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Indian Sociological Society.
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