Subramanya Nagarajarao (), also known as N. Subramanya, is an Indian author, researcher specialised on refugees and translator. He is currently Director of the Indian Research Institute,

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Biography

Subramanya Nagarajarao defended his thesis on Tibetan refugees and as awarded his Ph.D. in 1999 by the

University of Mysore The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and the premiership of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. The university is recognised by t ...

. He is post graduate in

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. He held tenure as Researcher under the

UNHCR The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and Humanitarian protection, protect refugees, Internally displaced person, forcibly displaced communities, and Statelessness, s ...

Chair at the

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, during which he worked extensively on the refugee issue. He has guided many master's degree Students in preparation of their dissertations. He worked as Director of Indian Research Institute,

and left it to join a teaching position at University of Mysore. He is also known as a translator from

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

to English, a passion from his university days. He participated to translating the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

ed book Government Brahmana of Prof. Aravind Malagathi. He is an Hon. Professor with the Indian Institute of Human Rights,

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. In 2008, he published an article with Jan Magnusson and Geoff Childs in Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies.South Indian Tibetans: Development Dynamics in the Early Stages of the Tibetan Refugee Settlement Lugs zung bsam grub gling, Bylakuppe

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After teaching at University of Mysore, he has again taken charge as the Director of a not-for profit academic trust namely Indian Research Institute.

Publications

Books

* ''Refugees: Right to freedom of expression and communication - a legal handbook'', WACC, 2004, * ''Human rights and refugees'', APH Publishing, 2004,

Translations

* V. C. Keshava, Exploring Mysore: a complete data map in a special style, V.S.R. Prakashana, 2004 www.vsrprakashana.in * Aravind Malagatti, Government Brahmana, Orient Longman,(as a member of translation team) 2007 ,

Articles

The politics of a refugee problem: a study of Tibetan refugee settlements in Mysore District, India
Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS), University of Oxford, England, 6 to 12 September 2003 * Jan Magnusson, Subramanya Nagarajarao and Geoff Childs
South Indian Tibetans: Development Dynamics in the Early Stages of the Tibetan Refugee Settlement Lugs zung bsam grub gling, Bylakuppe
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies Issue 4, December 2008

Notes

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