Roger Jeffery
Professor
Sociology of South Asia
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
Roger Jeffery Professor of Sociology of South Asia; Associate Director, Edinburgh India Institute
Research Interest
Since 1972, I have conducted a variety of research projects in India and elsewhere in South Asia, including research in village and small-town north India looking at how religious group membership and caste interrelate with childbearing, fertility behaviour, gender politics and schooling, in the context of agrarian change and the decline of the state. Since 2005 I have been involved in a series of projects on contemporary issues in public health in India and elsewhere. I have recently extended my research interests to include the effects of India on Edinburgh, and more broadly, on Scotland, in the long 19th century, and the implications for contemporary Scottish society, culture and politics.
Publications
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2014: Roger Jeffery, Craig Jeffrey and Jens Lerche (eds): Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh, (New Delhi: Sage).
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2016: Hugo Gorringe, Suryakant Waghmore & Roger Jeffery (eds), From the Margins to the Mainstream (New Delhi, Sage)
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2010: Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery & Roger Jeffery, Education, Masculinities and Unemployment in north India (New Delhi: Social Science Press).
