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{{Short description|Indian social historian and professor}}
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'''Badri Narayan Tiwari''' (born 5 October 1965), is an Indian social historian and cultural anthropologist.<ref name="IE">{{Cite web |date=31 July 2025 |title=Social historian and cultural anthropologist Badri Narayan Tiwari takes over as TISS V-C |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-tiss-social-historian-cultural-anthropologist-badri-narayan-tiwari-10159564/ |access-date=1 August 2025 |website=[[The Indian Express]] |language=en}}</ref> He serves as the Vice-Chancellor of the [[Tata Institute of Social Sciences]], [[Mumbai]].<ref name="thehindu2025">{{cite news|author=Maitri Porecha|title=Badri Narayan Tiwari appointed Vice-Chancellor of TISS|url=https://www.thehindu.com/education/badri-narayan-tiwari-appointed-vice-chancellor-of-tiss/article69874743.ece|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 July 2025|access-date=1 August 2025}}</ref> and is a former head and director of the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research|G.B. Pant Social Science Institute]].<ref name="thehindu2025" /> He has been recognized as a Fellow of the [[Maison des Sciences de L'Homme]], Paris, and has received the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004-05) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2007).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Badri Narayan |url=https://www.penguin.co.in/book_author/badri-narayan/ |access-date=27 January 2024 |website=Penguin Random House India |language=en-US}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (2022) for Hindi for his poetry collection ''Tumdi Ke Shabd''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-10-14 |title=Badri Narayan |url=https://kalingaliteraryfestival.com/speakers/badri-narayan/ |access-date=27 January 2024 |website=Kalinga Literary Festival |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=PTI |date=11 March 2023 |title='Festival of Letters' begins with honouring 24 writers with Sahitya Akademi Award |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/festival-of-letters-begins-with-honouring-24-writers-with-sahitya-akademi-award/article66608744.ece |access-date=27 January 2024 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== Career ==
Badri Narayan Tiwari earned an MA and a PhD in Modern History from the [[University of Allahabad]] and later served as the head of the [[Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute]] of the University.<ref name="IE" /><ref name="thehindu2025" />
According to The Times of India, as a director of the G. B. Pant Social Science Institute in Prayagraj, Tiwari established a Kumbh study centre and an ethnographic museum.<ref name="TOI">{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|author=Hemali Chhapia|title=TISS gets full-time VC appointed for 5 yrs by Centre after 22 months |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/tiss-gets-full-time-vc-appointed-for-5-yrs-by-centre-after-22-months/articleshow/123003934.cms|date= 31 July 2025|access-date=1 August 2025}}</ref> He also served as a professor at the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (JNU).<ref name="IE" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Master |first1=Web |title=Jurist Speaks – Eminent Scholar Lecture Series (April 6, 2024)|work=National Law University Delhi |date=5 April 2024 |url=https://nludelhi.ac.in/jurist-speaks-eminent-scholar-lecture-series-april-6-2024-2/|access-date=1 August 2025}}</ref>

In July 2025, Prof. Tiwari was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the [[Tata Institute of Social Sciences]] (TISS), becoming the first to be appointed under the Ministry of Education's new regulations.<ref name="thehindu2025" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/education/professor-badri-narayan-tiwari-takes-charge-as-vice-chancellor-of-tiss-mumbai-3658079|title=Professor Badri Narayan Tiwari takes charge as Vice Chancellor of TISS Mumbai|date=31 July 2025|access-date=1 August 2025|newspaper=[[Deccan Herald]]|quote=Prof Tiwari is the first VC appointed at TISS under the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) latest selection rules introduced in 2023.}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==

* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kLscEAAAQBAJ |title=Republic of Hindutva: How the Sangh Is Reshaping Indian Democracy |date=2021-03-15 |publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited |isbn=978-81-950843-7-1 |language=en}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Narayan |first=Badri |date=2021-04-02 |title=Chasing the Elephant's Shadow |url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/chasing-the-elephants-shadow/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Open The Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bo0AwAAQBAJ |title=Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits |date=2014-04-18 |publisher=Penguin UK |isbn=978-93-5118-670-0 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bJ_rhfu6yUC |title=Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation |date=2009-01-06 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-81-7829-906-8 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iAQrpDW4-_YC |title=Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics |date=2006-11-14 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-0-7619-3537-7 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWpNDwAAQBAJ |title=Khandit Akhyan: Bharatiya Jantantra mein Adrishya Log |date=2018-01-08 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-909324-3 |language=hi}}
* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W-HZAAAAMAAJ&q=Documenting+Dissent:+Contesting+Fables,+Contested+Memories,+and+Dalit+Political+Discourse |title=Documenting Dissent: Contesting Fables, Contested Memories, and Dalit Political Discourse |date=2001 |publisher=Indian Institute of Advanced Study |isbn=978-81-85952-93-2 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=Narayan |first=Badri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piwpDwAAQBAJ&q=The+Making+of+the+Dalit+Public+in+North+India:+Uttar+Pradesh,+1950%E2%80%93Present |title=The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950–Present |date=2011-05-11 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-908845-4 |language=en}}
* {{Cite book |last=नारायण |first=बद्री |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PohJzQEACAAJ |title=तुमड़ी के शब्द |date=2019 |publisher=Rājakamala Prakāśana |isbn=978-93-88933-83-4 |language=hi}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Book Review: जन और जनतंत्र के सबद को समेटने की सुन्दर कोशिश करते 'तुमड़ी के शब्द' |url=https://www.amarujala.com/kavya/book-review/book-review-of-tumdi-ke-shabd-2023-01-18 |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=Amar Ujala}}</ref>

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[[Category:1965 births]]
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[[Category:University of Allahabad alumni]]
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[[Category:21st-century Indian historians]]
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[[Category:21st-century Indian anthropologists]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University]]

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