16 Facts About Anand Teltumbde

Anand Teltumbde was born on 15 July 1951 and is an Indian scholar, writer, and human rights activist who is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management.

Anand Teltumbde has written extensively about the caste system in India and has advocated for the rights of Dalits.

Anand Teltumbde's arrest was condemned by other academics and human rights organizations, and legal experts have said that the charges against him appear to be fabricated.

Anand Teltumbde was born on 15 July 1951 in Rajur, a village in the Yavatmal district of present-day Maharashtra state, to a family of Dalit farm labourers.

Anand Teltumbde earned a mechanical engineering degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in 1973, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1982 and a PhD from the University of Mumbai in cybernetic modelling in 1993 while working as an executive at Bharat Petroleum.

Anand Teltumbde was an Executive Director at Bharat Petroleum and managing director of Petronet India Limited before becoming an academic.

Anand Teltumbde was a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and later became a senior professor at the Goa Institute of Management.

Anand Teltumbde contributes a column titled "Margin Speak" to Economic and Political Weekly, and has contributed to Outlook, Tehelka, and Seminar.

Anand Teltumbde's 2018 book, Republic of Caste, is a collection of essays that assesses the position of Dalits, including the relationship between caste and class.

In January 2024, Anand Teltumbde was awarded the Basava Puraskara by the Government of Karnataka.

On 29 August 2018, the police raided Anand Teltumbde's home, accusing him of having a connection to the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and an alleged Maoist plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Anand Teltumbde denied the allegations and was granted temporary protection from arrest, but he was nevertheless arrested by the Pune police on 3 February 2019 and released later that day.

The Washington Post reported that Anand Teltumbde was arrested as part of "a government crackdown on lawyers and activists" who are critics of Modi.

Anand Teltumbde had noticed his phone had been "acting up" and was later contacted by Citizen Lab in October 2019.

In November 2022, Anand Teltumbde was released from Taloja Central Prison after the Bombay High Court granted him bail and the order was upheld by the Supreme Court.

The court found no prima facie evidence that Anand Teltumbde had been involved in a terrorist act under the UAPA.