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'''Yogesh Atal''' (October 9, 1937 – 13 April 2018<ref name="times of india">{{cite web|url=https://www.advertgallery.com/newspaper/prayer-meeting-dr-yogesh-atal-ad/|title=Prayer Meeting Dr Yogesh Atal Ad|publisher=}}</ref>) was an Indian sociologist. He held a Ph.D. degree in [[social anthropology]] and a D.Sc. (honoris causa).

==Career==
He joined UNESCO in 1974 and retired in 1997 as Principal Director in Social Sciences. He was honoured by the [[Maharana Mewar Foundation]] and the [[Indian Social Science Association]] for his contributions to social sciences. The author and editor of a number of books on development related themes, he edited a trilogy of books on Poverty.

After retiring from UNESCO, Atal functioned for a year as Director-General of the [[Indian Institute of Education]], Pune and as Chairman of the Programmes Committee of the [[Indian Association of Social Science Institutions]] (IASSI). He was a member of the ICSSR Council and of the Governing Board of the [[Gobind Vallabh Pant Institute of Social Sciences]], Allahabad. He was on the Governing Board of the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare. He served on the High-Powered Committee appointed by the [[Government of Rajasthan]] in 2007 to examine the Demand of [[Gujjar]]s for a Tribal Status.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zeenews.india.com/home/committee-formed-to-look-into-gujjar-demand_377025.html|title=Committee formed to look into Gujjar demand|date=15 June 2007|website=Zee News}}</ref>

He also served as Member of the National Advisory Committee for the [[International Symposium on Human Genomics]] ISHG 2009, organised by the [[Anthropological Survey of India]] in March 2009.<ref>[http://www.ansi.gov.in/policy_interventions.htm ANSI: Human Genome Diversity] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201022216/http://www.ansi.gov.in/policy_interventions.htm |date=December 1, 2009 }}</ref> Professor Yogesh Atal was Program Advisory Board member at Sunstone Business School and <ref>{{cite web|url=http://sunstone.in/pgpm/program-advisory-board.html|title=Sunstone.in|website=sunstone.in}}</ref> Visiting Professor at the [[Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Sciences]], Ujjain.

==Books==
His books include:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3520A/Yogesh_Atal|title=Yogesh Atal|last=OpenLibrary.org|website=Open Library}}</ref><ref>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/Ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?database=&lin=1&ll=1&gp=0&look=default&sc1=1&sc2=1&nl=1&req=2&au=Atal,%20Yogesh Yogesh Atal books and articles on Unesco docs]</ref>
* ''Changing Frontiers of Caste''
* ''Local Communities and National Politics''
* ''Building a Nation''
* ''Social Sciences: the Indian Scene''
* ''MaNDAte for Political Transition''
* ''The Poverty Question : Search for Solutions''
* ''Indian Sociology : From Where to Where – Footnotes to the History of the Discipline''
* ''Understanding the Social Sphere : The Village and Beyond''
* ''Changing Indian Society''
* ''Education and Development''
* ''Entering the Global Village''

A [[Festschrift]] honouring him was published under the title, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=zAPK3QYcEkAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Emerging+social+science+concerns&hl=en&ei=HZrDTIX9OM6vcOHZnc0N&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Emerging Social Science Concerns]'' ({{ISBN|81-8069-098-9}}, edited by [[Surendra Gupta|Surendra K Gupta]]).

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