Yogesh Atal

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Yogesh Atal (9 October 1937 – 13 April 2018^[1]) 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

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.^[3] Professor Yogesh Atal was Program Advisory Board member at Sunstone Business School and ^[4] Visiting Professor at the Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Sciences, Ujjain.

Books

His books include:^[5][6]

• 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

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