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PROFESSOR M. N. SRINIVAS ENDOWMENT FUND

This Fund was jointly set up by the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2001.

It was constituted of the following: (a)Donation of accumulated royalties on the five volumes of Social Structure and Change (New Delhi: Sage) to be given by its editors Professors A.M. Shah, B.S. Baviskar and E.A. Ramaswamy to Indian Sociological Society (hereafter ISS), amounting to Rs. 1,42,236.00 as on 15 May 2000; (b) A grant of Rs.2 lakh to be given by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (hereafter ICSSR) to Indian Sociological Society; and (c) Royalties on the five volumes of Social Structure and Change to be donated by the editors to ISS from year to year in future. A Committee composed of the following will manage the Fund:

The Committee shall be composed of (i) the President of ISS, who will also be the Chairman of the Committee, (ii) one sociologist or social anthropologist to be chosen from a panel of three eminent sociologists or social anthropologists nominated by the Chairman of the ICSSR in order of preference, and (iii) one of the three editors of Social Structure and Change, namely, Prof. A.M. Shah, Prof. B.S. Baviskar, or Prof. E.A. Ramaswamy in the order in which their names are mentioned. When none of them is available, the Managing Committee of ISS will nominate a panel of three eminent sociologists or social anthropologists out of which the President of ISS will choose one to be a member of the Fund Committee in place of the editors.

The income from the Fund will be used for two main purposes:

a) to arrange for a distinguished sociologist or social anthropologist to deliver the Prof. M.N. Srinivas Memorial Lecture (hereafter the Srinivas Lecture), and

b) to award to a young sociologist or social anthropologist the Prof. M. N. Srinivas Memorial Prize (hereafter the Srinivas Prize) for publishing the best sociological or social anthropological paper in any of the social science journals published in India.

The honorarium for the Srinivas Lecture and the amount of the Srinivas Prize will be paid from the Fund accounts.

PROFESSOR M N SRINIVAS MEMORIAL LECTURES

Sl. No.	Lecturer	Theme	Venue
01	Prof. Andre Beteille	“Hierarchical and Competitive Inequality	27 December 2001,AISC, GNDU, Amritsar
02	Prof. P. C. Joshi	“Between Vision and Reality: Reflections on Hindi Region” (text not submitted)	14 November 2003, Department of Sociology, Delhi University
03	Prof. N. R. Sheth	“The Field of Labour	21 December 2003, AISC, Uadipur
04	Prof. Leela Dube	“Parampara, Shariat and Practice in an Island Community”	To be delivered
05	Prof. T. N. Madan	"The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading 'backward' from Srinivas to Weber"	25 October 2005, AISC, Jammu
06	Prof. J. P. S. Uberoi	“Sociology of Commerce and Industry”	27 December 2006, AISC, Chennai
07	Prof. T. K. Oommen		29 November 2007, AISC, Dharwar

PROFESSOR M N SRINIVAS MEMORIAL PRIZE WINNERS

Sl. No.	Name and the year the award was given	Theme	Published in
01	Dr. Rowena Robinson, IIT, Mumbai (2001)	“Interrogating Modernity, Gendering ‘Tradition’: Theatre Tales from Goa”	Contributions to Indian Sociology (NS), 33(33), 1999
02	Dr. Nandini Sundar, Centre for Law and Governance, JNU (2002)	“The Indian Census, Identity and Inequality”	Oxford University Press, 1999, 100-127.
03	In 2003, none of the Ten papers received measured upto the standards expected by the Committee
04	Dr. Amita Baviskar, Visiting Associate Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University (2004)	"States, Communities and Conservation: The Practice of Eco- development in the great Himalayan National Park"	(In V. K. Saberwal and M. Rangarajan (eds.), Battles over Nature: Science and the Politics of Conservation, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003).
05	In 2005, none of the Two papers received measured upto the standards expected by the Committee
06	Dr. Arima Mishra, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi Delhi 110 007 (2006)	“Local Perceptions of Famine: Study of a Village in Orissa”,	Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XL, No. 6, February 5, 2005.