Abstract
With the rise of market driven economies, propelled by science and technology, the farming sector has been losing its share in GDP and villages are getting destabilized. People are moving around in search of work, at times crossing the borders of the state or the nation. They are welcomed as cheap labor by the urban elite, while at the same time targeted as outsiders and foreigners. The state crosses its limits when it demands working classes to prove their citizenship by producing documents that were never issued to them, the oppressed classes. The talk will go over the transitions made during colonial and post independence period. It will also touch the current issue of National Register for Citizens.
Bio
Prof. V. K. Tripathi is a Plasma Physicist from IIT Delhi, India. Born on March 11, 1948 in Piprai (UP) India, he did his Ph.D. from IIT Delhi in 1971. He served on IIT faculty for five years and then moved to University of Maryland where he worked for six years on thermonuclear fusion. In collaboration with Prof. C.S. Liu he developed theories of parametric instabilities in RF heating of tokamak, magnetic mirror and laser produced plasmas. In 1983 he joined IIT Delhi as professor of physics and established a broad based research group on laser driven fusion, laser charged particle acceleration, free electron laser, gyrotron, Terahertz generation, rf heating and surface plasmonics. He published extensively in these areas, completed 18 sponsored research projects and led 38 students to Ph. D. degree. He collaborated with leading research groups at University of Maryland, General Atomic Co., University of Denver, Institute for General Physics, Moscow, National Central University, Taiwan, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Osaka University and University of Macao. After his retirement in 2013, he served IIT Delhi as honorary professor of Physics for five years. He continues to be active in high power laser plasma interaction and plasmonics. He is a co-author of 3 books, 5 review articles and 330 research papers.