Areas of Current Research Interest:

• Agrarian Studies
• Anthropology of Development
• Economic Anthropology
• Migration Studies
• Agricultural laborers and employment
• Women empowerment and SHG’s and Tribal studies.

Contributions to Teaching:

• Currently teaching Development Anthropology and Studies on Indian Tribes to Post Graduate Students

• Worked as a Research Associate for a period of 09 months i.e. 16 February 2018 to 30 November 2018 in Centre for Financial Inclusion & Entrepreneurship (CFIE), National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), for a NABARD sponsored project titled “Self HelpGroups-Bank Linkage Programme in India. The primary data have been collected from three states (Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha) in India.
• Worked as Research Coordinator & Research Associate for a project on ‘e-Sagu-An IT Driven Agri-facilitator for better Farming’ funded by IIIT Hyderabad for a period of Seven months during July 2017 to January 2018. As part of the project, the services provided to farmers by e-Sagu have been evaluated in 25 rural villages in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana State.
• An Anthropological field investigation/Primary data collection has been carried out in a Telangana Village for a period of 16 Months during 2015 to 2017. A Thesis has been submitted to Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad on “Changing Agrarian Relations in Telangana Study of A Village in Nizamabad District”.
• An Anthropological field work has been carried out for Primary data collection for a period of one month during December 2011 from a tribal village on the topic “Political organization among Lambadas of Nalgonda District of Telangana State”. As a part of course work in MA Programme a dissertation has been submitted to Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad.
• Worked as a Research Assistant for an evaluation project among HIV affected and Infected families and Children , undertaken by Family Health International(FHI))-an International NGO in three districts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana during 2012.
• Worked as a Research Assistant for a period of 3 Months among the Leprosy affected families and collected data in Hyderabad during 2013.

Publications:

• Praveen Kumar Ch (2017). Changing identity of Socio-economically backward caste in Telangana village; an anthropological study of Gulf migrants. Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities. ISSN No: 2249-7315, Vol.7, Issue. 7, pp. 426-435, July 2017.(UGC recognised)
• Praveen Kumar Ch (2017). Socio-economic conditions of landless agricultural labourers in Telangana. International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. ISSN No: 2454-8499, Vol. 3, Issue 7, July 2017(Online).(UGC recognised)
• Praveen Kumar Ch (2016). Political Organisation among the Lambada tribe of Nalgonda district of Telangana State. Asian Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. Volume: IV, Issue: 13. ISSN: 2321-8819. December 2016.
• Praveen Kumar Ch (2019). Changing Agrarian Relations in Telangana: A Case Study. Eastern Anthropologist. (Communicated).