Dr Swarup Dutta is an Anthropologist and joined TERI University as Assistant Professor. Earlier he worked as Consultant in Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of HRD, Government of India. He holds PhD in Social Anthropology and has profound research experiences in various national and international development organizations. He, along with Professor SK Thorat, Chairman ICSSR and Former Chairman, UGC, and Dr Samar Verma (IDRC, Canada) have edited a Book titled "Social Science Research in India: Status, Issues and Policies". Recently, he has been nominated as Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute, Great Britain and Ireland. He was also an Associate Fellow in Council for Social Development, New Delhi. His research interests lies in Sustainable development, Agricultural Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Tribal and Dalit issues. He has been a visiting Faculty in Department of Environmental Studies, University of Delhi; and National Museum Institute of History of Arts, Conservation and Museology, Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

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       Publications:

• Dutta S., 2012, Green Revolution Revisited: The Contemporary Agrarian Situation in Punjab, India, Social Change, 42 (2): 229-247
• Dutta, S, 2005, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge in the Era of Intellectual Property Right Regime - An Overview, Perspectives, PGMH Legal Forum's Annual Journal, Vol.1
• Dutta, S. and Narayanan SV, 2016, Social Science Research Policy in India, Status of Social Science Research in India, edited by Sukhadeo Thorat and Samar Verma
• Dutta, S., Behera S., Upadhyay R., 2015Access to Drinking Water by Scheduled Castes in Rural India - An Empirical Study, Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol.9(1), pp.115-131
• Swarup Dutta and Ashok Bharti 2016, Dalit Experience of Access to Sanitation with Special Reference to Rural India , Journal of Social and Economic Studies, Vol 26(1-2)
• Swarup Dutta, Ishita Sinha, Adya Parashar 2018, Dalit Women and Water: Availability, Access and Discrimination in Rural India, Journal of Social Inclusion Studies