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About Triloki Nath Madan
- Triloki Nath Madan, commonly, T.
- N.
- Madan, (born 12 August 1933 in Kashmir) is an anthropologist, with a Ph.D from the Australian National University (1960).
- He is currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow (Adjunct), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
- Of the teaching positions he held earlier, those at Lucknow and Dharwar lasted longest.
- He taught for short periods at several universities in India and abroad. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1989.
- In 1994, he was made Docteur Honoris Causa by the University of Paris X (Nanterre).
- In 1995, he occupied the Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hyderabad.
- He has held visiting appointments at a number of universities including Harvard where he was Visiting Professor of Anthropology and of the History of Religion in 1984-85.
- The Indian Sociological Society gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.
- His most noted work is Family and Kinship among the Pandits of Rural Kashmir (1966, 1989) which presented an account of the social life of Kashmiri Pandits.
- His more recent publications include,"Modern Myths, Locked Minds: Secularism and Fundamentalism in India" (1997, 2009), "Images of the World: Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture" (2005), and "Sociological Traditions: Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India" (2011). He was presented with a Festschrift titled Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: In Honour of T.N.
- Madan, edited by Veena Das, Dipankar Gupta and Patricia Uberoi.
- Currently he lives in Delhi.He was married to Uma Chaturvedi, who died in December 2013.
- They have two children.
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