{"id":886,"date":"2023-07-29T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaiacademyonline.com\/mpissr\/?page_id=886"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:35:55","slug":"director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/?page_id=886","title":{"rendered":"Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"886\" class=\"elementor elementor-886\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-443842aa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"443842aa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings='{\"background_background\":\"classic\"}'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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   <p>\n      <strong>Professor Yatindra Singh Sisodia<\/strong> has been serving as the Director of \n      <span class=\"highlight\">Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research (MPISSR)<\/span>, \n      Ujjain, since 2013. His areas of academic interest include \n      <em>democracy, decentralised governance, electoral politics, tribal issues,<\/em> and \n      <em>developmental challenges.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n\n    <h3>Academic Contributions<\/h3>\n    <p>\n      He has authored or edited <span class=\"highlight\">24 books<\/span>, including notable works such as:\n    <\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li><em>State Politics in Contemporary India: Conundrums and Possibilities<\/em> (Routledge, 2025)<\/li>\n      <li><em>Electoral Narratives of Democracy and Governance in India<\/em> (Routledge, 2024)<\/li>\n      <li><em>Political Communication in Contemporary India<\/em> (Routledge, 2022)<\/li>\n      <li><em>Electoral Dynamics in the States of India<\/em> (Routledge, 2021)<\/li>\n      <li><em>Social Inclusion of Marginalised in India<\/em> (Rawat Publications, 2021)<\/li>\n      <li><em>Strategies for Human Development and People\u2019s Participation<\/em> (Primus, 2020)<\/li>\n      <li><em>How India Votes: A State by State Look<\/em> (Orient BlackSwan, 2019)<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n\n    <p>\n      In addition, he has written <span class=\"highlight\">5 monographs<\/span> and published over \n      <span class=\"highlight\">100 research papers<\/span> in refereed journals and edited volumes. \n      He has completed more than <span class=\"highlight\">65 research projects<\/span> for various \n      ministries and organisations, including ICSSR and the Planning Commission.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <h3>Editorial &amp; Research Leadership<\/h3>\n    <p>\n      He serves as the <strong>Editor<\/strong> of both:\n      <em>Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences<\/em> and \n      <em>Madhya Pradesh Samajik Vigyan Anushandhan Journal<\/em> (Peer-Reviewed &amp; UGC-CARE Group I).\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      His distinguished work in Panchayati Raj and grassroots democracy earned him the \n      <strong>Professor G. Ram Reddy Social Scientist Award (2017)<\/strong>.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <h3>Professional Engagements<\/h3>\n    <p>\n      Professor Sisodia has been a member of numerous national bodies, including:\n    <\/p>\n    <ul>\n      <li>Research Institutes Committee, ICSSR (2017\u20132019)<\/li>\n      <li>First Court, Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar (2013\u20132018)<\/li>\n      <li>Common Review Mission for Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GoI (2017)<\/li>\n      <li>Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU), 2014\u20132024<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n    <p>\n      He also serves as the <strong>State Coordinator (Madhya Pradesh) of Lokniti, CSDS, Delhi<\/strong>, \n      and is a life member of several national research organisations.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <h3>Academic Engagements &amp; Mentorship<\/h3>\n    <p>\n      He has participated in more than <span class=\"highlight\">470 national and international seminars<\/span> \n      as a resource person and invited speaker, and contributed articles to leading newspapers such as \n      <em>The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Mint, Rashtriya Sahara, Naidunia,<\/em> and \n      <em>Dainik Bhaskar.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n    <p>\n      Professor Sisodia has guided <strong>20 Ph.D. candidates<\/strong> and supervised \n      <strong>5 ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellows<\/strong>. He has coordinated more than \n      <strong>80 seminars and workshops<\/strong> and has been a consistent organiser of \n      <strong>Research Methodology Training<\/strong> programmes in social sciences for over two decades.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <h3>International Exposure<\/h3>\n    <p>\n      He has made academic visits to the <strong>USA (IVLP 2010)<\/strong> and the <strong>UK (2013)<\/strong>, \n      and visited <strong>South Korea, Malaysia, Dubai,<\/strong> and <strong>Bangladesh<\/strong> \n      for academic engagements.\n    <\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"email-box\">\n      \ud83d\udce7 <strong>Email:<\/strong> \n      <a href=\"mailto:yatindrasingh.sisodia@gmail.com\">yatindrasingh.sisodia@gmail.com<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Yatindra Singh Sisodia Director, Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research (An ICSSR Institute), Ujjain Professor Yatindra Singh Sisodia has been serving as the Director of Madhya Pradesh Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-886","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/886\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpissr.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}