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Budhaditya Das

PhD, MPhil, Assistant Professor of Human Ecology

Budhaditya Das

Dr. Budhaditya Das is Assistant Professor (Social Sciences) at the School of Human Ecology, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. He teaches courses on Environmental Law, Policy and Governance, Environmental History and Gender and Environment. He has undertaken research on the history and anthropology of Adivasi (indigenous) communities of central India. He is also a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) practitioner and works with the State SIA Unit to mitigate the impact of involuntary land acquisition on agrarian communities.

Papers and Publications
  • Kabra, A. and B. Das. (2019). Global or local safeguards? Social impact assessment insights from an urban Indian land acquisition, in Susanna Price, Jane Singer (Eds).Country Frameworks for Development, Displacement and Resettlement. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Das, B. (2018). Adivasi Identity and Livelihoods in Contemporary India, Economic and Political Weekly, 53(30), pp. 31—34.