Nationality Indian Residence Pune Role Author | Name D Dhanagare Religion Hindu | |
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Born 1936 Pune, India Books Peasant movements in India, 1920-1950, Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology Alma mater India, University of Sussex | ||
Professor D. N. Dhanagare (11 June 1936-7 March 2017) was an Indian sociologist who specialised in farmers' movements and rural sociology.
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Dhanagare died of heart failure on 7 March 2017. He was survived by two sons.
Education
Dhanagare received his Masters from Nagpur University and a D.Phil at the University of Sussex, UK.
Career
He was Vice-Chancellor of Shivaji University in Kohlapur. Besides teaching in Agra University, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Pune University, Dhanagare has been the President of the Indian Sociological Society, He was a Life Member of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Marathi Samajshastra Parishad, People's Union of Civil Liberties, Indian Association of Social Sciences and a Member of International Sociological Association. He was a Member Secretary of Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
During 2012-2014, Dhanagare was a National Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla.
Recognition
Dhanagare received the 2011 Indian Sociological Society Life Time Achievement Award. He was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and an I.C.H.R Fellowship. He was Visiting Asian Scholar at the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen (1983), UGC National Lecturer, Visiting Research Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and received a Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute's Visiting Fellowship in Canada.