Subramanya Nagarajarao ( kan, ಸುಬ್ರಮಣ್ಯ ನಾಗರಾಜ ರಾವ್), also known as N. Subramanya, is an Indian author, researcher specialised on refugees and translator. He is currently Director of the

Indian Research Institute Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

Biography

Subramanya Nagarajarao defended his thesis on

Tibetan refugees Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken dial ...

and as awarded his Ph.D. in 1999 by the

University of Mysore The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore. The university is recognised by the University Grants Commission ...

. He is post graduate in

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. He held tenure as Researcher under the

UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

Chair at the

National Law School of India University The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or simply NLS) is a public law school and a National Law University located in Bangalore, Karnataka. It was the first National Law University to be established in India as well as one of the f ...

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, during which he worked extensively on the refugee issue. He has guided many master's degree Students in preparation of their dissertations. He worked as Director of Indian Research Institute,

and left it to join a teaching position at University of Mysore. He is also known as a translator from

Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...

to English, a passion from his university days. He participated to translating the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

ed book Government Brahmana of Prof. Aravind Malagathi. He is an Hon. Professor with the Indian Institute of Human Rights,

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. In 2008, he published an article with Jan Magnusson and Geoff Childs in

Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies The ''Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies'' (''JIATS'') is a freely available online, peer-reviewed English language academic journal focusing on Tibetan studies. ''JIATS'' is an official publication of the Internationa ...

.South Indian Tibetans: Development Dynamics in the Early Stages of the Tibetan Refugee Settlement Lugs zung bsam grub gling, Bylakuppe

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion WACC, 2004, * ''Human rights and refugees'', APH Publishing, 2004,

Translations

* V. C. Keshava, Exploring Mysore: a complete data map in a special style, V.S.R. Prakashana, 2004 www.vsrprakashana.in * Aravind Malagatti, Government Brahmana, Orient Longman,(as a member of translation team) 2007 ,

Articles

The politics of a refugee problem: a study of Tibetan refugee settlements in Mysore District, India
Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS), University of Oxford, England, 6 to 12 September 2003 * Jan Magnusson, Subramanya Nagarajarao and Geoff Childs
South Indian Tibetans: Development Dynamics in the Early Stages of the Tibetan Refugee Settlement Lugs zung bsam grub gling, Bylakuppe

Issue 4, December 2008

Notes

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