Eswarappa KASI is at the Department of Tribal Studies, Art, Culture & Folk Literature, Faculty of Tribal Studies, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has completed his M.A., M. Phil & Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Hyderabad. His Ph.D. thesis is titled "An Anthropological Study of Livelihoods: The Case of Two Sugali Settlements in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh." His area includes broadly Anthropology and the interdisciplinary areas of Development Studies, Area Studies, Tribal Studies, Tribal Development & Politics, Political Sociology, Women leadership and Governance, Marginality and Politics, NGOs, Civil Society, and South Asia. His research has been published in internationally reputed Journals such as Sustainability Science, Critical Sociology, South Asia Research, Journal of Developing Societies, SAGE Open, Journal of Asian and African Studies, South Asian Survey, and Contemporary Voice of Dalit. He has authored a book entitled "Anthropology and Development in a Globalised India: An Ethnography of Sericulture from the South'', Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, U.K. Kasi edited 06 books and jointly edited three special issues in reputed journals such as the Journal of Developing Societies (Sage), Romanian Yearbook of Anthropology, and Man in India. He has also contributed several entries to different encyclopedias, such as the Encyclopaedia of Psychology and Religion, Gerontology and Population Ageing, and the Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Global Security Studies. Kasi is an Associate Editor at S.N. Social Sciences (Springer). He is also an Academic Editor (PLOS ONE Editorial Board) for PLOS ONE journal. He also serves as an Editorial Board Member for Sage journals: South Asia Research, SAGE Open (Humanities), and S.N. Social Sciences (Springer). Kasi has professional membership in various national and international bodies. Kasi was elected Joint Secretary & Governing Council member of INCAA (2023-2025).  He was also elected Executive Board Member of ISA-RC-18 & IPSA-RC-06- Board Member (2023-28).   He is the Program Coordinator of RC-18 Political Sociology for the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025) in Rabat, Morocco. He is also a Coordinator of IPSA Work in Progress Sessions (IPSA-WiPS) of RC-06 (IPSA), December 2024.