Biography
Prof. Ram B.Bhagat is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Human Development, New Delhi. Earlier, Prof Bhagat served as Professor and Head of the Department of Migration and Urban Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India, until his superannuation on 31st October 2022. He has also served as an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, and as a Visiting Professor at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has guided 23 PhD research scholars and 27 students for the M.Phil. degree. Prof. Bhagat has co-edited books, namely ‘Climate change, vulnerability and migration’, published by Routledge in 2018; ‘Migration and Urban Transition: A Development Perspective’, Routledge, 2020; and ‘Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India’, Routledge, 2022. He has also authored a book on ‘Population and Political Imagination: Census, Register and Citizenship in India’, published by Routledge in 2022, and co-authored a textbook, ‘Researching Internal Migration’, by Routledge in 2023. ‘Urbanisation and Urban Policies in India’ is the latest publication by Springer (2025. He also served as Chief Editor of Demography India, an official Journal of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), during 2018-2022. Prof. Bhagat’s contributions to demography, migration, and urbanization addressed several critical issues, such as seasonal, temporary, and circular migration, construction of social categories and demographic data, migration and citizenship, gender, and right to the city. Over the last two decades, through his writings and lectures, more than a dozen of which appeared in Economic and Political Weekly alone, Prof. Bhagat has continued to shape the discourse on how India navigates its demographic and urban futures. He has published 10 books and about 200 research papers in national and international journals of repute (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/R-Bhagat). Currently, he is IUSSP Panel chair on ‘Climate Change, Gender, and Migration ', and also the chair of the Scientific Group on ‘Climate Mobilities, Migrant and Health’, commissioned by the Asian Population Association (APA), Bangkok.