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Honorary Positions: G. N. Devy Professor, DAIICT

The document provides biographical information about G. N. Devy including his academic and professional positions, awards, publications, and foundations established. It details that he is a professor who has received many honors for his work in linguistics, indigenous studies, and founding organizations focused on tribal education and language conservation. Devy has advised the Indian government and UNESCO on issues related to indigenous knowledge and endangered languages.

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Honorary Positions: G. N. Devy Professor, DAIICT

The document provides biographical information about G. N. Devy including his academic and professional positions, awards, publications, and foundations established. It details that he is a professor who has received many honors for his work in linguistics, indigenous studies, and founding organizations focused on tribal education and language conservation. Devy has advised the Indian government and UNESCO on issues related to indigenous knowledge and endangered languages.

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G. N.

Devy
Professor, DAIICT

HONORARY POSITIONS
2005-8: Executive Board Member, Indian Council for Social Science
Research, Delhi
1999-2002 & 2007-08: Director, Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, Gujarat,
India
1996-2002: Chairperson, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre,
Baroda, India
1981-89: Director, IAS Training Centre, M. S. University, Baroda, India

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS


2011, Linguapax Award by UN for Conservation of Linguistic Diversity
2009, Harmony Foundation Silver Award for Distinguished Community
Work
2007, Maharashtra Foundation Award, for Vanaprastha (non fiction in
Marathi)
2007, Sahakar Maharshi Purskar for Literature, for Vanaprastha(non
fiction in Marathi)
2007, Durga Bhagwat Memorial Award, for Vanaprastha(non fiction in
Marathi)
2007, Marathi Vangmaya Parishad Award, for Vanaprastha(non fiction in
Marathi)
2006, Maharashtra Government’s Award for Literature, for
Vanaprastha(non fiction in Marathi)
2004, Bhasha Bharati Samman, for Gujarati Book Aadivasi Jaane
Chhe( work in Gujarati)
2003, Prince Claus Award, Netherlands, for work on conservation of
Tribal Craft
2000, SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award, for work with Denotified Tribes
1998, Gunther Sontheimer Award, for work on Oral Traditions
1994-96, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, for Study of Violence in India
1994, Sahitya Academy Award, for the English book After Amnesia.
(Literary Theory)
1992, Katha Translation Award, for translation of fiction from Gujarati to
English
1992, The Fulbright Exchange Fellowship, for research at Yale, USA
1991, The THB Symons Fellowship for research in UK and Ireland
1986-87, The Commonwealth Academic Exchange Fellowship for
research in UK
1978-79, Rotary Foundation Fellowship for study in UK

INSTITUIONS FOUNDED

Founder, Himlok: Institute of Himalayan Studies, Himachal


Pradesh, 2006
For study and documentation of Himalayan communities and culture
Himlok runs a Community Museum at Keylang in Lahul Sphiti

Founder, Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, 1999


For tribal education, development and promotion of tribal arts
The Adivasi Academy provides education at post-graduate level for
community workers and healthcare. The microfinance and other
development work initiated by the adivasi Academy is spread over 1800
tribal villages in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
www.adivasiacademy.org.in

Founder, Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group, 1998


For protection of human rights of the denotified and nomadic
communities
The work resulted into appointment of the National DNT Commission and
Technical advisory Group (TAG)
www.friendsofbudhan.org
Founder Trustee, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, 1996
For conservation of indigenous languages
Bhasha has published over 90 books in 23 non-scheduled and main
languages, and has held over 180 regional, national and international
seminars.
www.bhasharesearch.org.in

PUBLICATIONS

Critical Thought, (co-edited with S. K. Desai), Sterling, 1987


After Amnesia, Orient Longman, 1992/94 – won the Sahitya Academy
Award 1993
In Another Tongue, Peter Lang, 1993, Macmillan, 1994
India between Tradition and Modernity, (co-edited with Fred Dallmyer),
Sage, 1997
Of Many Heroes, Orient Longman, 1997
Painted Words: Literature of Adivasis and Denotified Tribes, Penguin,
2003
Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation, Orient Longman,
2003
Truth (co-authored with four scholars; published in Arabic, French,
Italian and Chinese), Vistar/Sage, 2003
A Nomad Called Thief, Orient Longman, 2006
Indigeneity, Orient Blackswan, 2009
The G. N. Devy Reader, Orient Blackswan, 2009
Voice and Memory, Orient Blackswan, 2011
S. K. desai Essays: A Novelist’s Response to Literature, Padmagandha,
2011

ADVISORY POSITIONS, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA


2010 : Member, Committee appointed by Prime Minister’s Office on
Coordination of Government Initiative on Indigenous Knowledge,
Indian Languages, Culture and Ecology.

2010: Member, Special Sub-Group, Indigenous Knowledge and


Endangered Languages, Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India.

2010: Member, Round-Table on Indigenous Knowledge and Endangered


Languages, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of
India.

2010: Member, University Grants Commission Expert Committee on


Centers of Excellence in Indigenous Languages Study

2006: Chairperson, Sub-Group on Protection of Non-Scheduled


Languages, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of
India.

2006: Chairperson, Technical Advisory Group on De-notified and


Nomadic Communities, Ministry of Social Justice, Government of India

2006: Consultant, Concept creation for the National Centre of


Indigenous Culture, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India

ADVISORY POSITIONS, NON-GOVERNMENTAL


Member, South Asia Board, Aide et Action ( French-International
Organization)

WORK WITH UNESCO


Invited Panel Speaker at the Executive Board Meeting, 8 October 2008,
Paris, for Lecture on “Inclusive Education and Language Conservation”
Expert Advisor for Establishing Category One Institute on Language
Diversity, 2011

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE

TV La revanche de la terre documentary about development work of G N Devy


http://www.france5.fr/portraits-d-un-nouveau-monde/#/theme/economie/la-revanche-de-la-terre/
Indian Press about the People’s Conference Linguistic Survey of India
10/3/10, Indian Express, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/national-
convention-airs-concern-over-threat-to-indian-languages/589025/
10/3/10, DNA India, http://www.dnaindia.com/opinion/column_the-forest-of-
languages-and-hope_1357816
11/3/10 Indian Express http://www.indianexpress.com/news/National-
linguistic-survey-likely-by-year-end/589524/
11/3/10Indian Express http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bhasha-conclave-
ends-with-discovery-of-8-new/589525/
11/3/10 The Hindu http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?
file=2010031159182000.htm&date=2010/03/11/&prd=th&
11/3/10 The Statesman http://www.thestatesman.org/index.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=322081&catid=3
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New York Times Report on G N Devy’s Language Conservation Work
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/asia/11tribal.html?ref=world

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