Ravindra K Jain

Educated at Lucknow University and the Australian National University, Canberra, Ravindra K. Jain taught social anthropology and sociology at Oxford (1966-74) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1975-2002) besides holding research and teaching positions in many other parts of the world. His major publications include: South Indians on the Plantation Frontier in Malaya, Yale University Press and University of Malaya Press, 1970; (Editor) Text and Context: The Social Anthropology of Tradition, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1977; Indian Communities Abroad: Themes and Literature, Manohar, New Delhi, 1993; The Universe as Audience: Metaphor and Community among the Jains of North India, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1999; Between History and Legend: Status and Power in Bundelkhand, Orient Longman, Delhi and Hyderabad, 2002.