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Professor Joseph Elder
Contact information:
Office: 8131 Social Science
Phone: 608-262-2782
E-mail: elder@ssc.wisc.edu
Also: Department of Sociology

Specialties/Research Interests:

Sociology of contemporary India; scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and backward classes in India; conflict and conflict management in South Asia; education and economic changes in South Asia; Gandhi and post-Gandhian movements; women's movements in South Asia.


Current Projects:
Class, caste, ethnic, and gender inequalities in South Asia.


Recent Publications:
"Darubrahma ('Wooden Lord'): Jagannath's Re-Creation in Puri, India," 45-min. edited version of 140-min. documentary "Darubrahma" by Sudheer Gupta. 2000.

India's Worlds and US Scholars: 1947-1997. Co-edited with Edward C. Dimock and Einslie T. Embree. Delhi: Manohar and American Institute of Indian Studies. 1998

"The Constitution and Social Structures of India, " In The Perennial Tree: Select Papers of the International Symposium on India Studies, edited by Satchidananda Murty and Amit Dasgupta. New Delhi: Indian Council for Cultural Relations 262-278. 1996.
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