Prof. Lancy Lobo has a doctorate in sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He was the founder and Director of The Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara. He also served as Director of the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, under the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi (Ministry of Human Resources). He has extensively studied Dalits, tribals, OBCs and minorities in rural and urban Gujarat. He was an International Fellow at the Woodstock Centre, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., from  1999 to 2000. He has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited 35 books, most of them emerging from the research studies undertaken by him and his team. He is Professor Emeritus nd the Research Director at the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. His recent publications are: 1). Tribes of Western India: A Comparative Study of Their Social Structure, by Routledge (with Dhananjay Kumar); 2). Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujrat, Western India by Routledge (with Kanchan Bharati and Dhananjay Kumar).