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'''Javeed Alam''' (12 August 1943 – 5 December 2016) was an activist and thinker<ref>{{cite web|title=Javeed Alam Author Profile|url=http://www.epw.in/author/javeed-alam?0=ip_login_no_cache%3D2b44ff1ab57f291d8edd754581439b40|website=Economic and Political Weekly|publisher=EPW|access-date=6 May 2018|ref=EPW}}</ref> who served as Chairman of the Indian Council for Social Science Research from 2008 to 2011.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Javeed Alam was born to Khadija and Alam Khundmiri<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsclick.in/javeed-alam-thinker-and-activist|title=Javeed Alam -- a Thinker and an Activist.|date=5 December 2016|website=NewsClick}}</ref> in the erstwhile [[Hyderabad State|State of Hyderabad]] that was ruled by the [[Nizam of Hyderabad]]. His parents were leftist activists in [[Hyderabad]] and his family were deeply involved in the [[Telangana]] struggle of the peasantry. He completed his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] and [[Master of Arts|MA]] degrees at [[Osmania University]], getting a gold medal for standing first in the MA. He did his PhD at the Indian School of International Studies (ISIS), Delhi, and got his doctorate from [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (JNU) since ISIS was merged with JNU.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bilgrami|first1=Akeel|title=Marx, Gandhi and Modernity Essays presented to Javeed Alam|url=http://mayday.leftword.com/book/marx-gandhi-and-modernity/9789382381396/|website=Leftword|access-date=6 May 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Activism and career==<br />
Alam, described as a Marxist,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/uncategorised/javeed-alam-obituary|title=Javeed Alam, a Marxist Who Never Let Go of His Principles|website=thewire.in|first=Aditya|last=Nigam|date=7 December 2016|accessdate=17 August 2021}}</ref> was associated with the [[CPI(M)]] since the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2016/1218_pd/javeed-alam|title=Javeed Alam &#124; Peoples Democracy|website=peoplesdemocracy.in}}</ref> His teaching career at Delhi University’s Salwan College was terminated since he married Jayanti, a [[Hindu]]. This led to a larger agitation that was backed by the Teachers' association and defended the secular character of the University. From 1973 to 1999 he taught at [[Himachal Pradesh University]] (HPU). He returned to Hyderabad in the late 1990s and taught at the [[English and Foreign Languages University]] from which he retired in 2005. He was Chairman of the Indian Council for Social Science Research from 2008 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Patnaik|first1=Prabhat|title=Javed Alam — a Thinker and an Activist|url=http://www.socialsciencecollective.org/10203-2/|website=The Social Science Collective|access-date=6 May 2018|ref=SSC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heymancenter.org/people/javeed-alam/|title=People &#124; Javeed Alam &#124; The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University|website=heymancenter.org}}</ref><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
* Dissent and Domination: Peasants and Politics (1985)<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 8185010005|title = Domination and Dissent: Peasants and Politics|last1 = Alam|first1 = Javeed|year = 1985}}</ref><br />
* India: Living With Modernity (1999)<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 0195645251|title = India: Living with Modernity|last1 = Alam|first1 = Javeed|last2 = Alam|first2 = Senior Fellow Javeed|year = 1999}}</ref><br />
* Who Wants Democracy? (2004)<ref>{{Cite book|isbn = 978-8125045519|title = Who Wants Democracy?|last1 = Alam|first1 = Javeed|year = 2012}}</ref><br />
* Gandhi: A Philosophical Debate (Special Issue of Social Scientist, May-June 2006).<br />
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