AWARDS

2023, Daya Pawar Smruti Purskar

 

2022, Krantiagrani G. D. Lad Award

 

2019, Krntisinh Nana Patil Award

 

2019, Mahapalak Award, Pune

 

2019, Sayaji Lokbhasha Samman of the Bank of Baroda

 

2018, Damani Karmayogi Award for Lifetime achievement.

 

2017, Dr. M. M. Kalburgi Awad for Research by Basava Kalyan Samiti for Lifetime achievement.

 

2017,  Life Time Achievement Award by All India Bodo Assosication, Guwahatti

 

2017, Life Time Acheivement Award by Padmashri Vikhe Patil Foundation

 

2014, Padma Shree, Civilian Honour conferred by the President of India

 

2011, Linguapax Award by UNESCO for Conservation of Linguistic Diversity

 

2009, Harmony Foundation Silver Award for Distinguished Community Work

 

2008, Durga Bhagwat award for Vanaprastha (non fiction in Marathi)

 

2007, Maharashtra Foundation Award, for Vanaprastha (non fiction in Marathi)

 

2004, Bhasha Bharati Samman, for Gujarati Book Aadivasi Jaane Chhe( work in Gujarati)

 

2003, Prince Claus Award, Netherlands, for work on conservation of Tribal Craft

 

2000, SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award, for work with Denotified Tribes

 

1998, Gunther Sontheimer Award, for work on Oral Traditions

 

1994-96, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, for Study of Violence in India

 

1994, Sahitya  Akademy Award, for the English book After Amnesia.(Literary Theory) 

Fellowships
Rotary Foundation Fellowship, 1978, University of Leeds
Commonwealth Academic Exchange Fellowship, 1986, University of Leeds
T H B Symons Fellowship, University of Ulster
Fulbright Fellowship, 1992, Yale University
Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, 1994-96

 

 Institutions & Movements Founded 
Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, 1999
For tribal education, development and promotion of tribal arts
Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, 1996, www.bhasharesearch.org
For conservation of indigenous languages 
Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action group, 1998
The People’s Linguistic Survey of India, 2010
Dakshinayana—Writers for the Freedom of Expression--2016