Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University whose research interests include constitutionalism, academic freedom, democracy, law, inequality, agrarian ecologies. Her recent publications include, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar (2019), The Scheduled Tribes and their India (2016); Civil Wars in South Asia: State, Sovereignty, Development (co-edited, 2014); and Inequality and Social Mobility in Post-Reform India, Special Issue of Contemporary South Asia (co-edited, 2016), as well as several journal articles. She is a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Social Anthropology in 2010.