Kalpana Kannabiran is an Indian sociologist, lawyer, human rights columnist, writer and editor based in Hyderabad, India. In March 2021, after a decade-long tenure, she retired from the post of Professor and Regional Director of the Council for Social Development, Southern Regional Centre, a research institute recognised by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. She is amongst the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, and is a co-founder of the women's rights group, Asmita Resource Centre for Women, established in 1991 in Hyderabad. She was nominated as the Civil Society Advisory Governor for Asia by the Commonwealth Foundation, London in January 2020 for a term of three years.[1] At present, Kannabiran is a Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development.[2]
She has edited and authored twenty-six books[3] and close to a hundred essays,[4] apart from making regular contributions to the national press, online magazines and blogs.[5]
Kannabiran's work has focused on sociology of law, historical sociology, social movements, disability rights, violence and gender studies, caste, indigenous/adivasi rights, jurisprudence, equality and anti-discrimination law.
^"Civil Society Advisory Governors: new appointments". Commonwealth Foundation. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
^"Academic Team". Council for Social Development. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
^"Books – Kalpana Kannabiran". Kalpana Kannabiran. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
KalpanaKannabiran is an Indian sociologist, lawyer, human rights columnist, writer and editor based in Hyderabad, India. In March 2021, after a decade-long...
1880-1940". Columbia University Academic Commons. hdl:10022/AC:P:13307. Kannabiran, Kalpana (1995). "Judiciary, Social Reform and Debate on 'Religious Prostitution'...
Nira; Kannabiran, Kalpana; Kannabirān, Kalpana; Vieten, Ulrike; Kannabiran, Professor Regional Director Council for Social Development Kalpana (10 August...
11–12. ISBN 0842609865. Retrieved 22 December 2020. Nira Yuval-Davis; KalpanaKannabiran; Ulrike Vieten (2006). The Situated Politics of Belonging. SAGE. p...
People and Economy. Springer Science. p. 56. ISBN 978-94-007-7055-3. KalpanaKannabiran; Ranbir Singh (2008). Challenging The Rules(s) of Law. SAGE Publications...
August 11, 2004. Archived from the original on November 27, 2004. KalpanaKannabiran, "Judiciary, Social Reform and Debate on 'Religious Prostitution'...
rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India. KalpanaKannabirān, Ranbir Singh. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. 2008. p. 332...
Regional Director Council for Social Development KalpanaKannabiran (2006). Nira Yuval-Davis; KalpanaKannabiran; Ulrike Vieten (eds.). The Situated Politics...
stripped naked, violated with objects, and then killed. According to KalpanaKannabiran the rapes were part of a well-organized, deliberate and pre-planned...
to Remove Vastu Doshas From Your Home". Retrieved 1 December 2021. KalpanaKannabiran; Ranbir Singh (2008). Challenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism...
rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India. KalpanaKannabirān, Ranbir Singh. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. 2008. p. 332...
SAGE Publishing India. p. 141. ISBN 978-93-81345-46-7. Kannabiran, Vasanth; Kannabiran, Kalpana (1991). "Caste and Gender: Understanding Dynamics of Power...
traffic jams as a form of political and social protest". Professor KalpanaKannabiran has also criticised the "incarceration of student activist Safoora...
পাঠাগার". bn.wikisource.org (in Bengali). Retrieved 22 May 2021. Kannabiran, Kalpana; Singh, Ranbir (11 November 2008). Challenging The Rules(s) of Law:...
Strategies and Resistance in Colonial and Independent India", in Kannabiran, Kalpana; Singh, Ranbir (eds.), Challenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism...
Development and Legal Pluralism, Ecology, Families, Governance, Edited by KalpanaKannabiran, ISBN 9781032269283 Nigam Shalu (2005) Understanding Justice Delivery...
Books India. ISBN 978-0-14-341743-9. Ramamirthammal, Muvalar; Kannabiran, Kalpana; Kannabiran, Vasantha (2003). Muvalur Ramamirthammal's Web of Deceit: Devadasi...
Patricia Tuitt International Advisory Board Doris Buss Margaret Davies KalpanaKannabiran Sarah Keenan Ambreena Manji Karin van Marle Vasuki Nesiah The journal...
February 2019. Sangwan, K. S. (2008). "Khap Panchayats in Haryana". In Kannabiran, Kalpana; Singh, Ranbir (eds.). Challenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism...
abortion and reproductive rights: a syncretic feminist approach". In Kannabiran, Kalpana (ed.). Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism:...
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