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'@@ -19,18 +19,91 @@ |website={{URL|r-indira.com}}}} -'''Ramarao Indira''' (born 22 April 1952 in [[Mysore]], [[Karnataka]]) is an Indian sociologist who lives in Mysore. In her University career spanning 42 years, she has held such positions as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Director of the International Centre and Honorary Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Mysore.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sociology - Visiting Scholars|url=https://www.uj.ac.za:443/faculties/humanities/sociology/Pages/Visiting-Scholars.aspx|access-date=2021-06-06|website=www.uj.ac.za|language=en}}</ref> +Academic Career -==Academic and professional career == -Indira had her school and college education in [[Mysore]] and joined the [[University of Mysore]] as a faculty in the Department of Sociology in 1972 and continued to teach and engage in research in the department until her superannuation in the year 2014. She built a research culture in the department through her people-centric research projects and also through training students to undertake studies on themes of social relevance. She is well known for her works on gender issues in forest management, girls' education, building capacities of women in institutions of local self-governance. A columnist who has been writing on social themes in leading Kannada newspapers, her major works include ''Themes in Sociology of Education'' (Studies in Indian Sociology) and ''Gender and Society in India'' (two volumes) as editor, and many Kannada books on such themes as feminism, women and culture, and research methods.<ref>{{Cite web|title=NEP 2020 should reduce inequality and socio-educational gap: Dr R Indira – Mysuru Today|url=https://citytoday.news/nep-2020-should-reduce-inequality-and-socio-educational-gap-dr-r-indira/|access-date=2021-06-06|language=en-US}}</ref> Consulting Editor, 'Sociology' - English -Kannada Translation Equivalents. Chief Editor, 'Gender and Women's Studies'- English - Kannada Translation Equivalents. She is a contributor to and editor of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, journals, theme-based books and translation projects. +Ramarao Indira (born 22 April 1952) is an Indian sociologist who lives in Mysuru. +She had her school and college education in Mysuru and joined the University of +Mysore as a faculty in the Department of Sociology in 1972 and continued to teach +and engage in research in the department until her superannuation in the year 2014. +In her career spanning 42 years at the University of Mysore, she held such +positions as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Director of the International +Centre and Honorary Director of the Centre for Women's Studies. She is currently +Professor of Eminence, School of Social Sciences, M.S.Ramaiah University of +Applied Sciences, Bengaluru. She is also Visiting Professor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar +Chair at the University of Mysore. Her other academic assignments include a +Visiting Fellowship at the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesberg, +South Africa, University of Delhi and Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and +Scholar-in-Residence position at the Kuvempu and Bangalore Universities. She has +mentored Study-India Programmes of Florida International University, University +of Iowa, Cornell University, University of Puget Sound, University of Delaware, +Allegheny College,Princeton University, Lady of the Lake College and University +of Michigan, USA and Mount Alison and Guelph Universities, Canada. -===Research and teaching=== +Research Profile -Indira is an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa. She also taught a semester at that University as a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer. Earlier she had worked on American Women & Technical Education on a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. She was an ICSSR Senior Research Fellow & received four fellowships from the Shastri Indo Canadian Institute and has carried out extensive work with forest communities in Western Ghats. Indira has been a visiting faculty at Study India Programs of the Universities of Puget Sound, Iowa, Delaware, Princeton, Michigan and Florida International University in the United States and Mount Alison, Guelph and Concordia Universities in Canada. She has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Delhi and Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and Scholar-in-Residence at the Kuvempu and Bangalore Universities. +For the past four decades, Indira has been engaged in research focusing mainly on +gender issues, role of women in forest management, girls&#39; education and building +capacities of women in institutions of local self-governance, among others. She is a +two-time Fulbright Scholar, four-time Shastri Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the +ICSSR. Her research work with forest dependent communities in the Joida region +of Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka State with a special focus on women's +empowerment initiated many reforms in a region that had been sidelined by +development projects for several decades. She has to her credit more than 20 +research projects sponsored by Shastri Indo canadian Institute, Karnataka Forest +Department, Karnataka Evaluation Authority, United Nations Democracy Fund, +UNICEF and Ministry of Wefare, GoI. Indira has guided and mentored a number +of research students and young faculty and is credited with bulding a research +culture in the department through her people-centric research projects and also by +training students to undertake studies on themes of social relevance. -===Current responsibilities=== +Professional Trajectory -She is the President of Samruddhi Foundation, a civil society group that she initiated with her family & friends for building the capacities of women, research students and members of society. +Indira has been continuously working with professional organizations in the fields of +sociology and gender studies and with civil society groups She has served as +President (2028-2019), Secretary( 2014-2015) and Memmber of the MC(2002-07) +of Indian Sociological Society and as President of the Karnataka Sociology +association(1999-2001). She is the Honorary President of the Alumni Association +of the Sociology Students of the University of Mysore and has received the +Distinguished Alumni Award (2019) from the Alumni Association, University of +Mysore, Mysuru. +Recognizing her signal contributions to the discipline of Sociology in India, the +Indian Sociological Society conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award to Indira +for the year 2022. The Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest and most +coveted award given by the Indian Sociological Society to honour outstanding +Indian sociologists who have made profound and exceptional contributions in the +field of sociology and thereby enriched the discipline of Sociology. +Indira has also served as Course Coordinator (2014-2016) for the Society and +Education, course prepared under the aegis of the E-PG Pathashala Project - +MHRD Initiative under its National Mission on Education through ICT. She has +also recorded many videos on different aspects of gender in Kannada (see www.r- +indira-com). +She is the President of Samruddhi Foundation, a civil society group that she +initiated with her family &amp; friends for building the capacities of women, research +students and members of civil society. -Indira is currently heading a team that is translating Anthony Giddens' Sociology into Kannada, besides being involved in translation projects and evaluation of forestry programmes in Karnataka. She was Secretary of the Indian Sociological Society between 2014 and 2015, and is currently the Honorary President, Alumni Association, Department of Sociology, Masagangotri, University of Mysore, Mysuru. +Publications + +Indira has authored several books and articles in journals, edited volumes and +newspapers both in English and Kannada and has been a Contributor and Editor to +Subject Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Journals, Theme based books and Translation +Projects and has been conferred literary awards and recognitions for her works on +social issues. Her fortnightly columns published in the leading Kannada daily +PRAJAAVANI brought to the public domain many issues of sociological +significance and continue to be cited in many works on related themes. Two of her +major edited works- Sociology-English -Kannada Translation Equivalents ( +National translation Mission) and Gender and Women’s Studies-English-Kannada +Translation Equivalents (Abhiruchi Prakashana) were published in 2022. She is +leading a team translating Anthony Gidden’s Sociology (6th Edition) into Kannada. +Her other major works include Themes in Sociology of Education (Studies in +Indian Sociology) and Gender and Society in India (two volumes) as editor, and +many Kannada books on such themes as feminism, women and culture, and +research methods. Her articles have been widely published in journals and edited +volumes both in Kannada and English ( see www.r-indira-com). +Indira has been conferred with literary awards in recognition of her works on social +issues and people in society's margins These include the Bharata Ratna Dr. B.R. +Ambedkar Mooknayak Award (2020), conferred on columnists writing on +people and groups in society’s margins by the Karnataka Media Academy, +Government of Karnataka; H.S.Parvathi Endowment Award (2016), Sadodita +Award (2011), Presidentship of the Davanagere Kannada Sahitya Sammelana +(2011) and Triveni Award (2003). ==See also== '