• Tribal Demography
• Fertility and Family Planning
• Health Delivery
• Indigenous Health Care System

• Ph D in Anthropology (1993), University of Mysore
• M A in Anthropology (1978), University of Mysore
• Training in Demography (1989) (non degree), International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.

Books

• Tribal Fertility, Mortality and Health Care Practices, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2000.

• Backwardness and Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi, 1986 (Co-author with Prof. P Hanumantha Rayappa).

Monographs

• Son Preference and Its Effects on Fertility in India, International Institute for Population Sciences, Bombay, East-West Center, Hawaii, USA (Co-Author with Minja Kim Choe, Fred Arnold, T K Roy).

• Indigenous Health Care System in Karnataka, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, No. 35.

Articles in Books

• "Is Economic Status Influencing Freedom of Movement and Women Empowerment in Karnataka?" In R K Mishra and Jayashree Raveendran (Ed) Millennium Development Goals and India: Cases Assessing Performance, Prospects and Challenges, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2011.

Working Papers

• Gender Differential in Disease Burden: Its Role to Explain Gender Differential in Mortality, Working Paper No. 221, Institute for Social and Economic Change  (co-author with Biplab Dhak).

Articles (since 2000)

• Demographic Situation and Morbidity among the Elderly in Karnataka, Indian Journal of Humanities (IJH), Vol. 1, Issue 3, July-September 2011 (with T N Bhat).

• Gender Differential in Obesity in India: It's Interaction with Socio-Economic Status, Food Consumption and LifeStyle, Indian Journal of Humanities (IJH), Vol.1, Issue-1, April-June, 2011(with Bibplab Dhak).

• Is Empowerment influencing Domestic Violence Aganist Women in Karnataka?, Man and Development, Vol.XXXII, No.4 December 2010 (With Biplab Dhak)

• Functioning of Janani Suraksha Yojana in Hassan District of Karnataka, The Indian Journal of Social Work, Vol. 71, Issue 2, 2010, Pp 167-180.

• Is Male Involvement Influencing Women's Reproductive Health?, Man and Development, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, December 2009, Pp 85-100.

• Morbidity Pattern and Cost of Health Care in Karnataka, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Vol. 43, No.3, 2008, Pp 247-270.

• Is Lifestyle Influencing Morbidity among Elderly, Journal of Health Management, No 10.2, 2008 (with T N Bhat).

• Reproductive Morbidity of women in Karnataka, Journal of Health Management, No. 8.1, 2006.

• A Study of Maternal Health Services in Three Districts of Karnataka, Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, Vol. 40, No. 1, March 2005.

• Factors and Consequences of Home Deliveries: A Study in Rural Karnataka, Journal of Health Management, No. 5, 1, 2003, pp17-35. (with P Prabhuswamy).

• Quality of Health and Family Planning Services provided by the Female Health Workers in Kolar District of Karnataka, Indian Journal of Anthropological Society, Vol, 37, No. 1, 2002, pp 85-94.

• Is Culture Influences Family Planning Acceptance?, Man in India, Vol 3 & 4, 2001, pp 277-289.

• Rehabilitated Bonded Labourers: A Classical Example from Karnataka, Indian Journal of Social Development, Vol. I, No. I, June 2001, pp 39-58.

• Indigenous Health Care System in Karnataka, Indian Journal of Anthropological Society, Vol, 35, No. 1, March 2000, pp 67-77.

• A Study on Women Empowerment and Domestic Violence against Women in Karnataka

• Male Involvement in Reproductive Health: Evidence from NFHS-3 and DLHS-2

• Rapid Appraisal of Critical Components of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Karnataka (co-authored)

• A Study on Morbidity Pattern and Cost of Illness in Karnataka

• Life-style and Health of the Elderly in Karnataka

• District Level Household Survey under Reproductive and Child Health (Goa and Karnataka States) - DLHS-2

• Reproductive Morbidity of Women in Karnataka

• End line Survey on Training, IEC and NGOs and Innovative Schemes - India population Project-IX (K), Government of Karnataka

• A Study of Maternal Health Care in Three Districts of Karnataka

• Rapid Household Survey under Reproductive and Child Health ( RCH) ( Goa and Karnataka States)

• Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in Karnataka

• Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center, Program on Population, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 1996.