Triloki Nath Madan (born 12 August 1933, in Kashmir, India) is an anthropologist, with a Ph.D from the

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(1960). He is currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth,

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, 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 Pandit The Kashmiri Pandits (also known as Kashmiri Brahmins) are a group of Kashmiri Hindus and a part of the larger Saraswat Brahmin community of India. They belong to the Pancha Gauda Brahmin group from the Kashmir Valley, a mountainous region l ...

s. 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

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titled ''Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: In Honour of T.N. Madan'', edited by

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, 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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1933 births Living people Academic staff of Delhi University University of Lucknow alumni Australian National University alumni Indian social sciences writers 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers 20th-century Indian anthropologists 21st-century Indian anthropologists Scholars from Jammu and Kashmir {{india-academic-bio-stub