Raghavendra Gadagkar

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Born|  (1953-06-28) 28 June 1953 (age 72)

Kanpur, India

Nationality| Indian
Known for| sociobiology, eusociality
Awards|

* Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Sciences (1993)
* Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany)(2015)[1]

Scientific career
Fields| Biologist
Institutions| Indian Institute of Science
Website| https://ces.iisc.ac.in/?q=user/33

Raghavendra Gadagkar is an honorary professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India, who studies evolution of social behaviour using eusocial insects using Ropalidia marginata, a locally common wasp as a model. He was, from 2014 to 2016, the president of the Indian National Science Academy.

Gadagkar has published over 275 scientific papers and articles in various international journals as well as in Indian journals like Current Science magazine, and the Journal of Biosciences (India). His work on the evolution of eusociality using the theory of "assured fitness returns" which has been examined using empirical data [2] is considered as a significant landmark and advance over the idea of inclusive fitness introduced by W. D. Hamilton in 1964. He helped established a research group that has examined theoretical predictions, proximate and ultimate factors in the evolution of sociality in wasps. Some of his opinion pieces on science policy have been questioned, such as his exception to the pay to publish, free to read Open Access science publishing model.[3]

His first book, Survival Strategies,[4] has been translated into Chinese and Korean. It uses simple language to explain recent advances in behavioural ecology and sociobiology to a general audience.In an interview published in Indian Entomologist, his book Survival Strategies has been considered an Indian masterpiece on ethology and has been compared with Konrad Lorenz's King Solomon's Ring.

He has also written a more technical book, The Social Biology of Ropalidia marginata: Towards understanding the evolution of eusociality,[5] which puts together over twenty years of his research about the evolution of eusociality.

From 2002-2022 he was a Non-resident Permanent Fellow[6] at the German institute Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.[7]

In 2006 Gadagkar became one of the very few Indian scientists to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to science research including Cross of the Order of Merit (Germany)[8] in 2015, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biology in 1993 and the TWAS Prize in 1999.[9]

He holds a number of other academic positions. He is the founding chairman of the Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore. He is an honorary professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is a Non-resident Permanent fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a chairman of Research Council for History of Science, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. He was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in July 2012.

In 2004, Gadagkar helped set up the Centre for Contemporary Studies[10] in the Indian Institute of Science. This department aimed to support interdisciplinary discourse.

In the years 2023, 2024 and 2025, Gadagkar was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskollegs at the University of Konstanz.[11]

## References

1. ↑ "German Mission in India". http://www.india.diplo.de/Vertretung/indien/en/02__Bangalore/00__start/Ordensverleihung.html.
2. ↑ Gadagkar, Raghavendra (November 2001). The Social Biology of Ropalidia. Harvard: Harvard University Press. pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-674-00611-9.
3. ↑ Gadagkar, Raghavendra (2008-05-21). "Open-access more harm than good in developing world" (in en). Nature 453 (7194): 450. doi:10.1038/453450c. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 18497797. Bibcode: 2008Natur.453..450G.
4. ↑ Gadagkar, Raghavendra (May 2001). Survival Strategies - Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies. Harvard: Harvard University Press. pp. 212. ISBN 978-0-674-00611-9.
5. ↑ Gadagkar, Raghavendra (November 2001). The Social Biology of Ropalidia. Harvard: Harvard University Press. pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-674-00611-9.
6. ↑ Non-resident Permanent Fellows at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
7. ↑ Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
8. ↑ "Germany's highest civilian honour conferred on Indian professor". The Times of India. 7 August 2015. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Germanys-highest-civilian-honour-conferred-on-Indian-professor/articleshow/48389783.cms.
9. ↑ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016. http://twas.org/opportunities/prizes-and-awards.
10. ↑ CES
11. ↑ https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/community/senior-fellows/ [bare URL]

## Further reading

* Michael L. Lewis (2003). "Modern Ecology Comes to India". Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947-1997. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1540-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=0Bl8s5JCM4UC&pg=PA109.

## External links

* Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar's home page
* CES

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Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science

1960s|

* Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1960)
* M. S. Swaminathan (1961)
* Bimal Kumar Bachhawat (1962)
* Jagannath Ganguly (1963}
* Dilbagh Singh Athwal (1964)
* Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965)
* Hari Krishan Jain (1966)
* Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966)
* Arun Kumar Sharma (1967)
* Tathamangalam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968)

1970s|

* Madhu Sudan Kanungo (1971)
* Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971)
* Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1972)
* Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972)
* Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973)
* Sardul Singh Guraya (1973)
* John Barnabas (1974)
* Obaid Siddiqi (1975)
* Archana Sharma (1975)
* Guru Prakash Dutta (1976)
* Kishan Singh (1976)
* Trichnopoly Chelvaraj Anand Kumar (1977)
* V. Sasisekharan (1978)
* Amar Nath Bhaduri (1979)
* M. K. Chandrashekaran (1979)

1980s|

* Asis Datta (1980)
* Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980)
* Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981)
* Sushil Kumar (1981)
* Sunil Kumar Podder (1982)
* Ramamirtha Jayaraman (1982)
* Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983)
* Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984)
* K. R. K. Easwaran (1984)
* Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985)
* M. Vijayan (1985)
* Madhav Gadgil (1986)
* Avadhesha Surolia
* Sudhir Kumar Sopory
* Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya (1988)
* M. R. S. Rao (1988)
* Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989)
* Manju Ray (1989)

1990s|

* Samir K. Brahmachari (1990)
* Virendra Nath Pandey (1991)
* Srinivas Kishanrao (1991)
* Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992)
* Dipankar Chatterji (1992)
* Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993)
* M. R. N. Murthy (1993)
* Ramakrishnan Nagaraj (1994)
* Alok Bhattacharya (1994)
* Seyed E. Hasnain (1995)
* Kalappa Muniyappa (1995)
* Ghanshyam Swarup (1996)
* Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1996)
* Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997)
* Kanury Venkata Subba Rao (1997)
* K. VijayRaghavan (1998)
* Debi Prasad Sarkar (1998)
* Siddhartha Roy (1999)
* Valakunja Nagaraja (1999)

2000s|

* Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000)
* Jayant B. Udgaonkar (2000)
* Umesh Varshney (2001)
* Raghavan Varadarajan (2002)
* Amitabha Mukhopadhyay (2002)
* Satyajit Mayor (2003)
* Gopal Chandra Kundu (2004)
* Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004)
* Tapas Kumar Kundu (2005)
* Shekhar C. Mande (2005)
* Vinod Bhakuni (2006)
* Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006)
* Upinder Singh Bhalla (2007)
* Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007)
* Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava (2008)
* L. S. Shashidhara (2008)
* Amitabh Joshi (2009)
* Bhaskar Saha (2009)

2010s|

* Sanjeev Galande (2010)
* Shubha Tole (2010)
* Amit Prakash Sharma (2011)
* Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011)
* Shantanu Chowdhury (2012)
* Suman Kumar Dhar (2012)
* Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan (2013)
* Roop Mallik (2014)
* Balasubramanian Gopal (2015)
* Rajeev Kumar Varshney (2015)
* Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (2016)
* Rishikesh Narayanan (2016)
* Deepak T. Nair (2017)
* Sanjeev Das (2017)
* Ganesh Nagaraju (2018)
* Thomas J. Pucadyil (2018)

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