Dr. B. Bindu Ramachandran, a leading cultural anthropologist, has spent decades studying Kerala’s tribal and coastal communities, with her recent work culminating in Marine Fishing Communities of Kerala (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020). Her scholarship spans development, environment, family and gender, and the lived realities of marginalised communities across the state.

A Professor of Anthropology at Kannur University since 1994, Dr. Bindu holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calicut and was awarded the C.R. Parekh Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the Asia Research Centre associated with the London School of Economics. She is also a recipient of the UGC National Research Award (2015–2017) and has received grants from the Gates Foundation, World Bank, UGC, and the Government of Kerala.

Dr. Bindu currently serves as Chief Editor of the Journal of Human Sciences, and has held several leadership positions including Dean of Social Sciences, Head of Department, and Director of the Dr. Janaki Ammal Campus. She chairs the Boards of Studies in Anthropology at Calicut and Kannur universities and serves on BoS bodies at Madras, Bharathiyar, and Pondicherry universities. With more than sixty publications in ethnography and development studies, she remains one of Kerala’s most respected voices in contemporary anthropology.