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Madhusudan Bandi |   Ph.D. (Political Science)
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Madhusudan Bandi is Assistant Professor with the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad. He obtained his doctoral degree in Development Studies with specialisation in Political Science from the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (affiliated to BR Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU), Hyderabad). He accomplished one-year coursework for his PhD at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich under the Split-Site Doctoral Scholarship scheme offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom. In home country, he was a recipient of the Institutional Doctoral Fellowship of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. He also holds degrees in MPhil and Law. His academic experience is primarily comprised of research. His studies and policy engagement concern issues in the forest rights act; democratic decentralisation; geographical indications; and the development of marginalised communities. He has publications in professional journals and edited volumes besides contributions to national newspapers.  

  • Title: Tribals and Community Forest Management
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Publisher: Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
    Published Year: 2013
  • Title: ‘Conservation and Social Emancipation’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 58, No. 22, June 3, Pp. 4-5.  
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2023
  • Title: ‘Bhalia Wheat in Gujarat: Does Geographical Indication Registration Have a Role in Arresting the Decline?’, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 23 (Supplement 1), No. 2, Pp. S93-S112.
    Authors: N.Lalitha, Madhusudan Bandi and Soumya Vinayan
    Published Year: 2021
  • Title: ‘Bengal Politics: Is the Cause of Subalterns Lost in a Battle of Perception?,’ Mainstream, Vol. LIX, No. 33, New Delhi, July 31, http://mainstreamweekly.net/article11329.html
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2021
  • Title: ‘Samras in Gram Panchayats of Gujarat: A Threat to the Idea of Democracy?’, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 23 (Supplement 1), No. 2, Pp. S181-S198.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2021
  • Title: ‘Tribal Rights and Heritage Conservation in the Western Ghats of Karnataka’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, No. 41, October 10, Pp. 46-51.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2020
  • Title: ‘Forest Conservation, Tribals and a Decade of the Forest Rights Act in India’, Mainstream, Vol. 55, No. 21, May 13, Pp. 22-26.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2017
  • Title: ˜Forest Rights Act: Is There an Underlying Pattern in Implementation?, Economic and Political Weekly,  51  (19),  2016,  pp. 16-17.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2016
  • Title: ‘Forest Rights Act: Land Distribution and Livelihoods of Forest Dependent People’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 4, January 24, Pp. 59-66.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2015
  • Title: ‘Forest Rights Act in Chhattisgarh and Gujarat: Unfolding the Dynamics in Implementation’, Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 34, No. 2, April-June, Pp. 135-147.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2015
  • Title: ‘A Review of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Gujarat’, The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 75, No. 2, April-June, Pp. 369-380.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2014
  • Title: ‘Forest Rights Act: Towards the End of Struggle for Tribals?’ Social Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 1-2, January-February, Pp. 63-81.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2014
  • Title: ‘Forest-dependent People their Livelihood Challenges and Forest Rights Act: A Review’, Mainstream, Vol. 51, No. 37, August 31, Pp. 23-24.  
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2013
  • Title: 'Implementation of the Forest Rights Act: Undoing Historical Injustices’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 48, No. 31, August, Pp. 21-24.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2013
  • Title: ‘A Review of Decentralisation in India with Particular Reference to PRIs in Gujarat’, available at http://www.ruralgov-ncaer.org/images/event/pdf/0_ 1620316040_A_Review _of_Decentralisation_GIDR.pdf
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2012
  • Title: ‘Realising Telangana State: Issues, Apprehensions and Hope’, Mainstream, Vol. 49, No. 46, November 5, Pp. 11-20.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2011
  • Title: ‘Forest Governance in India with Particular Reference to Andhra Pradesh: A Review of Policy Shift from State Control to Community Participation’, Man and Development, Vol. 33, No. 4, December, Pp. 75-90.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2011
  • Title: ‘The Role of Gram Sabha in Decision-Making at the Grassroots: A Case of MGNREGS in Andhra Pradesh’, The Grassroots Governance Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, July-December, Pp. 233-242.
    Authors: M. Gopinath Reddy, Madhusudan Bandi and Solipeta Ramachandra Reddy
    Published Year: 2011
  • Title: ‘Participatory Democracy: Role of Gram Sabhas in Decentralised Governance: An Overview of Andhra Pradesh Experience’, The Grassroots Governance Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2006, Pp. 304-317.
    Author: Reddy, M. Gopinath and Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2006
  • Title: ‘Participatory Democracy: Role of Gram Sabhas in Decentralised Governance: An Overview of Andhra Pradesh Experience’, Kakatiya University Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 1, December, Pp. 39-50.  
    Authors: Reddy, M. Gopinath and Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2006
  • Title: ‘Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation: A Case of Andhra Pradesh Forestry Project (JFM)’, Review of Development and Change, Vol. 11, No. 1, January-June, Pp. 15-33.
    Authors: Reddy, M. Gopinath and Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2006
  • Title: ‘Emergence of OBC Leadership in PRI in Karnataka: An Assessment’, The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 67, No. 4, Pp. 889-900.  
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2006
  • Title: ‘Participatory Forest Management in Andhra Pradesh: A Review of Its Working’, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 7, No. 2, July-December, Pp. 175-199.
    Authors: Reddy, V. Ratna., M. Gopinath Reddy., Velayutham Saravanan., Madhusudan Bandi and Oliver Springate-Baginski
    Published Year: 2005
  • Title: ‘73rd Constitutional Amendment and Emerging Leadership Among the Other Backward Classes in PRIs: The Case of Bidar District in Karnataka’, Social Action, Vol. 54, No. 1, January-March, Pp. 60-75.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2004
  • Title: ‘The Status of PRIs in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka: A Comparison’, The Grassroots Governance Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, January-June, Pp. 78-100.
    Authors: Madhusudan Bandi
    Published Year: 2003
  • Title: ‘Other Backward Classes as Majority: Unravelling their Aspirations, Challenges and Hope’, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, March.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Working Paper No.: 265
    Published Year and Month: March 2021
  • Title: ‘Determinants and Challenges of Sustainable Forest Governance in India: An analysis in retrospect and prospect’, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, October.
    Authors: Madhusudan Bandi and P. K. Viswanathan
    Working Paper No.: 223
    Published Year and Month: October 2014
  • Title: ‘Decentralisation in India: A Review of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Gujarat’, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, February.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Working Paper No.: 214
    Published Year and Month: February 2013
  • Title: ‘Samras in Gujarat Gram Panchayats: A Constructive Experiment or Challenge to Electoral Democracy?’, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad; March.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Working Paper No.: 215
    Published Year and Month: March 2013
  • Title: ‘Implementation of Forest Rights Act:  Undoing the Historical Injustices?’, (RULNR Working Paper No. 18), Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources (Supported by Jamsetji Tata Trust-Mumbai)-Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, August.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Working Paper No.: 117
    Published Year and Month: August 2012
  • Title: ‘The Telangana Turmoil: Apprehensions and Hope’, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, August.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Working Paper No.: 204
    Published Year and Month: August 2011
  • Title: ‘Adopting to Climate Variability in Semi-arid Regions: A Study Using Sustainable Rural Livelihoods Framework’, Livelihoods and Natural Resources Management Institute, Hyderabad, CSIRO, Australia and ANGRAU, Hyderabad, LNRMI, September.
    Authors: Reddy, V. Ratna., Peter Brown., Madhusudan Bandi., T. Chiranjeevi., D. Raji Reddy and Christian Roth
    Working Paper No.: 1
    Published Year and Month: September 2010
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  • Title: ‘Karnataka’s Inexplicable Politics: Caste is still key. Blame it on voters’, Deccan Herald, April 21, Kalaburagi, P. 8.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Deccan Herald
    Published Year: 2023
  • Title: ‘Reading through the political developments in Maharashtra: An alternative viewpoint’, The Print, July 13, https://theprint.in/yourturn/subscriberwrites-reading-through-the-political-developments-in-maharashtra-an-alternative-viewpoint/1668252/ (accessed July 14, 2023)  
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: The Print
    Published Year: 2023
  • Title: ‘Forest rights and heritage conservation,’ The Hindu, December 26, Delhi, P. 7.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: The Hindu
    Published Year: 2022
  • Title: ‘Looking beyond the Forest Rights Act,’ The Hindu, December 23, Chennai, P. 9.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: The Hindu
    Published Year: 2021
  • Title: 'Kalyana Karnataka: Has Article 371 (J) been elusive?’, Deccan Herald, March 16, Kalaburagi, P. 12.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Deccan Herald
    Published Year: 2020
  • Title: Rituals and Celebrations: Pollution is Religion-blind
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Deccan Herald, December 5, Kalburgi, 2020, p. 8.
    Published Year: 2020
  • Title: 'The tragedy of conservation', The Hindu, December 30, Chennai, P. 11.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: The Hindu
    Published Year: 2020
  • Title: ‘Rituals and celebrations: Pollution is religion-blind’, Deccan Herald, December 5, Kalaburagi, P. 8.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Deccan Herald
    Published Year: 2020
  • Title: ‘Forest Rights Act: Amend, to make it work’, Deccan Herald, February 13, Kalaburagi, P. 10.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Deccan Herald
    Published Year: 2019
  • Title: 'Democracy in the real sense’, The Telegraph, June 7, Calcutta, P.16.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: The Telegraph
    Published Year: 2019
  • Title: ‘Karnataka bypoll results: Candidates’ sway over voters’, Deccan Herald, December 23, Kalaburagi, P. 12.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Deccan Herald
    Published Year: 2019
  • Title: ‘Location Based Agricultural Products and Economic Challenges: A Case Study of Bhalia Wheat in Gujarat’ (Theme: Location of Economic Activity) Proceedings of the International Seminar 12th World Congress of the Regional Science Association of India (RSAI)-Spatial System: Social Interpretations, Regional Development and Sustainability, Birla Institute of Technology and Science: The KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India, May 29, 2018-June 1, 2018, Pp. 574-582 (ISBN: 978-989-54216-0-2).
    Author: Lalitha, N. and Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: World Congress of the Regional Science Association of India (RSAI)
    Published Year: 2018
  • Title: ‘Implementation and Outcomes of Forest Rights Act: A Critical Assessment of Two States in India’, Monograph No. 31 (RULNR Monograph No. 17), Research Unit for Livelihoods and Natural Resources (Supported by Jamsetji Tata Trust, Mumbai), Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, October.  
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
    Published Year: 2013
  • Title: Implementation and Outcome of Forest Rights Act: A Critical Assessment of Two States in India, Policy Brief, RULNR-CESS, No.6, December, Hyderabad.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: RULNR-CESS Hyderabad.
    Published Year: 2013
  • Title: ‘Changing Role of Gram Sabha in Decentralised Governance: An Overview of Andhra Pradesh Experience’ in Hasan, Ashraful, S. A. and G. S. Ganesh Prasad  (Eds.) Proceedings of the National Seminar on Grama Sabha, Abdul Nazir Sab State Institute of Rural Development, Mysore, Pp. 135-150.  
    Authors: Reddy, M. Gopinath., Madhusudan Bandi and S. Ramachandra Reddy
    Source: Abdul Nazir Sab State Institute of Rural Development, Mysore, Pp. 135-150.
    Published Year: 2012
  • Title: ‘Participatory Forest Management in Andhra Pradesh: Implementation, Outcomes and Livelihood Impacts’
    Authors: Reddy, V. Ratna., M. Gopinath Reddy., Madhusudan Bandi., V. M. Ravi Kumar., M. Srinivasa Reddy and Oliver Springate-Baginski,
    Source: Earthscan, London
    Published Year: 2007
  • Title: ‘Participatory Forest Management and Social Dynamics’, published in the Proceedings from the Paper presented at The ICSSR Seminar on Economic Reforms and Social Justice in India: Achievements and the Way Ahead, Fourth Development Convention of ICSSR Institutes of Southern Region, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, March 4-5, Hyderabad, Pp. 517-529.
    Authors: Reddy, V. Ratna., M. Gopinath Reddy and Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Centre for Economic and Social Studies
    Published Year: 2005
  • Title: ‘Participatory Forest Management and Social Dynamics’, published in the Proceedings in Srinivas, G. (Ed.) Conference Proceedings, Suhas Print Media, Hyderabad, Pp. 102-111. from the Paper presented at The National Conference on Dalit Concerns in Forestry, IACIS, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad, organised by the Centre for People’s Forestry, Secunderabad, Centre for World Solidarity, Secunderabad and National Dalit Forum, Secunderabad, December 14-16, 2004.
    Authors: Reddy, V. Ratna., M. Gopinath Reddy and Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Centre for People’s Forestry, Secunderabad, Centre for World Solidarity, Secunderabad and National Dalit Forum, Secunderabad,
    Published Year: 2004
  • Title: ‘What went wrong with my beloved Bidar’, Independent Spirit, September 17, Bidar, P. 2.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Independent Spirit
    Published Year: 1991
  • Title: ‘Students career or parent’s atrocities’, Part III, Independent Spirit, July 14, Bidar, P. 2.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Independent Spirit
    Published Year: 1990
  • Title: ‘Students career or parent’s atrocities’, Part II, Independent Spirit, July 13, Bidar, P. 2.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Independent Spirit
    Published Year: 1990
  • Title: ‘Students career or parent’s atrocities’, Part I, Independent Spirit, July 12, Bidar, P. 2.
    Author: Madhusudan Bandi
    Source: Independent Spirit
    Published Year: 1990