Rama Shanker Singh
Rama Shanker Singh, an ex-Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India (2018-20), obtained a Masters in Ancient History of India and completed his PhD on Community Rights of subaltern castes in early India from Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, a constituent Institute of University of Allahabad. This work mainly focuses on claims of Dalits over rivers and forests in pre modern India. It critically examines the history of claims of communities of over natural resources, the making of communities and their everyday resistance with the state.
He has been engaged with the research of life, language and politics of nomadic communities of Uttar Pradesh. He was actively engaged in the making of Uttar Pradesh volume of People’s Linguistic Survey of India with Ganesh Devy- Uttar Pradesh ki Bhashyein(2016), ed. Badri Naryan, Orient Blackswan. Some of his research work on life and politics of Nishadas, Basors and nomads and deontified communities of north India has been published in CSDS’s journal Pratiman. He worked as chief research consultant in a project on the scheduled castes and nomadic communities of Bundelkhand, carried by Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad in 2017.
He has translated the book Gandhi Against Caste by Nishikant Kolge(2017) as Jati ke Viruddha Gandhi Ka Sangharsh(2019), Oxford University Press, New Delhi and Fractured Tales: Invisible on Indian Democracy by Badri Narayan(2016) as Khandit Akhyan: Bhartiya Jantantra me Adrishya Log(2018), Oxford University Press, New Delhi. He is a regular translator of peoms. His translations of the poem ‘Masters of War’ by Bob Dylan appeared in Naya Gyanoday, November (2016), Bhartiya Gyanpeeth, New Delhi.
He writes poem when he does not write his research papers!
He has been engaged with the research of life, language and politics of nomadic communities of Uttar Pradesh. He was actively engaged in the making of Uttar Pradesh volume of People’s Linguistic Survey of India with Ganesh Devy- Uttar Pradesh ki Bhashyein(2016), ed. Badri Naryan, Orient Blackswan. Some of his research work on life and politics of Nishadas, Basors and nomads and deontified communities of north India has been published in CSDS’s journal Pratiman. He worked as chief research consultant in a project on the scheduled castes and nomadic communities of Bundelkhand, carried by Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad in 2017.
He has translated the book Gandhi Against Caste by Nishikant Kolge(2017) as Jati ke Viruddha Gandhi Ka Sangharsh(2019), Oxford University Press, New Delhi and Fractured Tales: Invisible on Indian Democracy by Badri Narayan(2016) as Khandit Akhyan: Bhartiya Jantantra me Adrishya Log(2018), Oxford University Press, New Delhi. He is a regular translator of peoms. His translations of the poem ‘Masters of War’ by Bob Dylan appeared in Naya Gyanoday, November (2016), Bhartiya Gyanpeeth, New Delhi.
He writes poem when he does not write his research papers!
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Over the past 30 years, there has been a four-way contest—between the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the BJP—to conquer UP. The BSP, the SP and the BJP have been trying to strengthen their hold in the state for years, right from when Mayawati was the chief minister in 2007 and when Akhilesh Yadav was ruling the state in 2012. In 2017, Yogi Adityanath became the chief minister of the state, and the BJP benefitted from it.
It is also true in forthcoming 2024 loksabha elections
society. Using the right to vote, they have silently revolted. Wider public discourse and
considerable academic writing on the subject is available. Work on the politics of backward
castes of India is substantial( Beteille 1992). While on the one hand scholars of Dalit
consciousness have explained the ways in which Dalit politics prepares its base in written and
oral forms (Narayan 2011) on the other,little thought has been given to the lives and politics of
nomadic communities in the political sphere. There is practically no discussion on how nomadic
and de-notified communities are making their political space, and the manner in which they have
tried to change their lives and forge political possibilities. Using a historical perspective, this
essay aims to investigate the participation of nomadic communities in Uttar Pradesh in
contemporary democratic processes,and their daily negotiations with state. It aims to analyze the
ways in which, in last three decades, socio-political changes have connected these communities
to India’s wider political structure through the Panchayati Raj institutions.
Books by Rama Shanker Singh
Over the past 30 years, there has been a four-way contest—between the Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Samajwadi Party (SP), and the BJP—to conquer UP. The BSP, the SP and the BJP have been trying to strengthen their hold in the state for years, right from when Mayawati was the chief minister in 2007 and when Akhilesh Yadav was ruling the state in 2012. In 2017, Yogi Adityanath became the chief minister of the state, and the BJP benefitted from it.
It is also true in forthcoming 2024 loksabha elections
society. Using the right to vote, they have silently revolted. Wider public discourse and
considerable academic writing on the subject is available. Work on the politics of backward
castes of India is substantial( Beteille 1992). While on the one hand scholars of Dalit
consciousness have explained the ways in which Dalit politics prepares its base in written and
oral forms (Narayan 2011) on the other,little thought has been given to the lives and politics of
nomadic communities in the political sphere. There is practically no discussion on how nomadic
and de-notified communities are making their political space, and the manner in which they have
tried to change their lives and forge political possibilities. Using a historical perspective, this
essay aims to investigate the participation of nomadic communities in Uttar Pradesh in
contemporary democratic processes,and their daily negotiations with state. It aims to analyze the
ways in which, in last three decades, socio-political changes have connected these communities
to India’s wider political structure through the Panchayati Raj institutions.