Ritambhara Hebbar Editor

Ritambhara Hebbar, a professor and chairperson in the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, writes regularly on tribes in India, specifically on culture, self-rule, women and land rights. Her other research areas are sociology of mobility, social institutions and change in India. Her book publications include Ecology, Equality and Freedom: Engagement with Self-Rule in Jharkhand (2011), a coedited book, Towards a New Sociology in India (2016) and a special issue in the Sociological Bulletin on Tribes in Contemporary India (2024).