Research and Other Activities
A holder of UGC Fellowship, Pradhan was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Utkal University in 2001 for his dissertation on Structural and Economic Dimensions of Communal Conflict. He has done path breaking research on the Kandh-Pana conflict in Kandhamal district, Hindu-Muslim relations in Bhadrak and Harijan-Savarna caste dynamics at Brahmabarada in Jajpur district of Odisha. He taught Sociology for a while at Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, before joining the Reserve Bank of India in 1999 as an officer at its New Delhi Office.
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