Badri Narayan (writer)

Badri Narayan Tiwari (born 5 October 1965), is an Indian social historian and cultural anthropologist.^[1] He serves as the Vice-Chancellor of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.^[2] and is a former head and director of the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute.^[2] He has been recognized as a Fellow of the Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, and has received the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004-05) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2007).^[3] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award (2022) for Hindi for his poetry collection Tumdi Ke Shabd.^[4][5]

Career

Badri Narayan Tiwari earned an MA and a PhD in Modern History from the University of Allahabad and later served as the head of the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute of the University.^[1][2] According to The Times of India, as a director of the G. B. Pant Social Science Institute in Prayagraj, Tiwari established a Kumbh study centre and an ethnographic museum.^[6] He also served as a professor at the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).^[1][7]

In July 2025, Prof. Tiwari was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), becoming the first to be appointed under the Ministry of Education's new regulations.^[2][8]

Selected bibliography

• Narayan, Badri (15 March 2021). Republic of Hindutva: How the Sangh Is Reshaping Indian Democracy. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 978-81-950843-7-1.^[9]
• Narayan, Badri (18 April 2014). Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-93-5118-670-0.
• Narayan, Badri (6 January 2009). Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-81-7829-906-8.
• Narayan, Badri (14 November 2006). Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-0-7619-3537-7.
• Narayan, Badri (8 January 2018). Khandit Akhyan: Bharatiya Jantantra mein Adrishya Log (in Hindi). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-909324-3.
• Narayan, Badri (2001). Documenting Dissent: Contesting Fables, Contested Memories, and Dalit Political Discourse. Indian Institute of Advanced Study. ISBN 978-81-85952-93-2.
• Narayan, Badri (11 May 2011). The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950–Present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-908845-4.
• नारायण, बद्री (2019). तुमड़ी के शब्द (in Hindi). Rājakamala Prakāśana. ISBN 978-93-88933-83-4.^[10]