A New Moral Economy for India's Forests?

Roger Jeffery is a Professor of Sociology of South Asia at The University of Edinburgh. His research has covered public health policy, social demography and pharmaceuticals regulation. He is the University's Dean International (India), Director of the India Institute and President of the European Association of South Asian Studies. He has recently edited (with Craig Jeffrey and Jens Lerche) Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh (SAGE 2014) and (with Oliver Heath) Change and Diversity: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India (OUP 2010). He is the author and co-author of numerous books including most recently Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in North India (with Craig Jeffrey and Patricia Jeffery, Social Science Press 2010).

Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She served as co-editor of Contributions to Indian Sociology from 2007 to 2011 and is on the board of several journals. Her publications include Subalterns and Sovereigns: An Anthropological History of Bastar (2007), published in Hindi as Gunda Dhur Ki Talash Mein (2009), Branching Out: Joint Forest Management in India (2001), and several edited volumes, including, most recently, Legal Grounds: Natural Resources, Identity and the Law in Jharkhand (2009). In 2010, she won the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences. Her current research interests include conflict in South Asia, counter-insurgency, inequality and democracy in India and the politics of law.