Surinder S Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities, contemporary dynamics of caste, agrarian change, rural India, and the political sociology of community identities. His recent publications include The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21^st Century. Aleph 2023; The Oxford Handbook of Caste. OUP 2023 (ed with Jules Naudet); India’s Villages in the 21^st Century: Revisits and Revisions OUP 2019 (edited with Edward Simpson); Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege and Inequality. OUP 2019 (edited with Jules Naudet). A Handbook of Rural India. 2018 Orient Blackswan (ed.). Caste in Contemporary India Routledge 2015; Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions. OUP 2012. He is editor of the Routledge India book series on ‘Religion and Citizenship’ and co-editor of the OUP book series on ‘Exploring India’s Elite’. He has been a recipient of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists.

Recent publications:

• Jodhka, Surinder S.. 2025. “Reference: Re-Cast(e)ing the State Policy: Ascription, Identities, and Democratic Politics.” Social Change, Vol. 55 (4): 529-44.
• Jodhka, Surinder S. 2025. “Persistent Rural, Emergent ‘Ruralities.’” Economic & Political Weekly 60(49). doi:71279/epw.v60i49.47748.
• Jodhka, S. Surinde. 2024. Jati: Badalte Paripreksha. New Delhi: Rajkamal Parkashan. (Traduit en Hindi) ISBN: 978-93-6086-195-7
• Jodhka, Surinder S., and Boike Rehbein, eds. 2024. Global Handbook of Inequality. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. (deux volume) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32152-8
• Jodhka, Surinder S. 2024. « On the Futures of Caste. » Economic & Political Weekly. 59(49): 48-57.