Madhav Gadgil

Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil (born 24 May 1942) is

Ecologist
an Indian ecologist,[1] academic, writer, columnist and
the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences,[2] a Madhav Gadgil
B.Sc. (Poona), M.Sc. (Bombay), Ph.D. (Harvard)
research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute
of Science.[3] He is a former member of the Scientific
Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and
the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel
(WGEEP) of 2010, popularly known as the Gadgil
Commission.[4][5]

Gadgil is a recipient of the Volvo Environment Prize

and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
The Government of India awarded him the fourth
highest civilian award of the Padma Shri in 1981 and
followed it up with the third highest award of the
Padma Bhushan in 2006.[6] He received the
Champions of the Earth in 2024.[7] Born Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil
24 May 1942
Pune, Bombay Province, British
Academic career India
Nationality British Raj (1942–1947)
Gadgil was born on 24 May 1942[8] in Pune, in the India (1947–Present)
western Indian state of Maharashtra. His parents were
Education
Pramila and Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a B.Sc. (Poona),
Cambridge scholar ,[9] economist, former director of M.Sc. (Bombay),
the Gokhale Institute and the author of the Gadgil
Ph.D. (Harvard)
formula.[10] He graduated in biology from Fergusson
College of the University of Pune in 1963, and secured Alma mater
Savitribai Phule Pune
a master's degree in zoology from the Mumbai University, Pune
University in 1965.[11][12] (Maharashtra),
University of Mumbai,
Harvard years Mumbai (Maharashtra),

Gadgil was encouraged to join Harvard University by Harvard University,

Giles Mead, then curator of fishes at the Harvard Cambridge, Massachusetts
Museum of Comparative Zoology. Initially intending (United States)
to do research under Mead, Gadgil later changed Known for Gadgil Commission
subjects by hearing lectures of E. O. Wilson, "the People Biodiversity Register in
brightest young star in the ecology-evolution end of India
biology at Harvard at that time," and subsequently did Spouse Dr. Sulochana Gadgil
his doctoral research on mathematical ecology and fish Parent(s) Smt. Pramila and Dr. Dhananjay
behaviour, under the guidance of William Bossert,[9] Ramchandra Gadgil
one of Wilson's former students.[13] Awards
(2024) Champions of the
It earned him a PhD in 1969.[14] Subsequently, he Earth,
received a Fellowship from IBM to continue his work (2015) Tyler Prize for
as a research fellow at the Harvard Computing Center Environmental Achievement,
and simultaneously worked as a lecturer of biology at
(2014) Georgescu-Roegen
the university for two years.[14]
Award,
(2007) H. K. Firodia award,
Return to India (2006) Padma Bhushan,
He returned to India in 1971[15] and took up a job as a (2003) Volvo Environment
scientific officer at Agharkar Research Institute of the Prize,
Maharashtra Association for Cultivation of Science, (2002) Harvard Centennial
Pune where he stayed for two years.[11] In 1973, he Medal,
joined the Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
(1993) PEW Scholars Award
Bengaluru, starting an association that would stretch
in Conservation and the
for over thirty years, superannuating from the institute
Environment,
as its chairman in 2004.[11] During this period, he
established two research centres at IISc, the Centre of (1990) Vikram Sarabhai

Theoretical Studies and the Centre for Ecological Award,

Studies.[14] He also worked as a visiting professor at (1986) Shanti Swarup
Stanford University (1991) and the University of Bhatnagar Prize for Science
California, Berkeley (1995). After his retirement from and Technology,
IISc, he went back to Pune in 2004 to resume his (1983) Rajyotsava Prashasthi,
association with Agharkar Research Institute[11] and (1981) Padma Shri,
holds the Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi chair of the
(1979-81) National
visiting research professor at the University of
Environmental Fellow,
Goa.[16][17]
(1968-69) IBM Fellow Harvard
In 1976, when the Government of Karnataka decided Computing Center,
to look into protecting the bamboo resources of the (No Date) Ishwarchandra
state, Gadgil was asked to conduct a study, which is Vidyasagar Award.
reported to have influenced the government to curb the
Scientific career
subsidies provided to forest based industries.[18] A
decade later, in 1986, he was appointed as a member of Fields Ecology, Conservation Biology,
the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister of Human Ecology, Ecological
India, a post he held till 1990.[18] During this period, history
he assisted the efforts to establish the first biosphere Institutions Harvard University
reserve in the country at the Nilgiris in 1986.[18] In Centre for Ecological Sciences,
1998, he was appointed the chairman of the Science Indian Institute of Science,
and Technology Advisory Panel of Global Environment Bangalore
Facility, an agency under the United Nations. He held Thesis Life History Strategies: A
the chair till 2002. He also served as a member of the Theoretical Investigation (https://
environmental education panel of the National Council www.google.co.in/books/edition/L
of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and as ife_History_Strategies_a_Theore
a member of the National Advisory Council.[19] He is a tical_In/zU9BIAAACAAJ?hl=e
member of the National Tiger Conservation n) (1969)
Authority [18] and is the chairman of the committee Doctoral William H. Bossert
proposing Environmental Education Curriculum at advisor
School level.[20] In 2010, when the Government of
India constituted an expert panel, Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP), to examine the
ecological issues related to the Western Ghats, he was selected as the chairman of the panel.[21]

Personal life
Gadgil, an active sportsman during his college years, held the Maharashtra State Junior and Pune
University high jump records in 1959 and 1961 respectively. He has also represented Pune University at
the All India University Athletic meet.[22] He is married to Sulochana Gadgil, a noted meteorologist and a
Harvard scholar, whom he met during his Fergusson College years.[15] The couple has a daughter, who is
a journalist cum Spanish teacher, and a son, a mathematician.[12][15] The family lives in Pune, his home
town. His life story has been recorded in a biographical book, Vidnyanyatri – Dr. Madhav Gadgil, written
in Marathi by A. P. Deshpande.[23]

Legacy

Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve

Poomparai village in the foothills of

One of the major contributions of Gadgil is his effort towards Western Ghats.
the preservation of ecology of India. His early researches in the
1980s have helped in the identification of the Nilgiris as the
first biosphere reserve in India.[18] As the chairman of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel
(WGEEP), which later came to be known as the Gadgil Commission, he submitted a report in 2011,[24]
marking around 64 percent of the Western Ghats region as Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA).[19] The
report attracted support and dissension,[25] the environmentalists welcoming the recommendations and
the state governments of the neighbouring states and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of Kerala
disapproving it.[21][24] This paved way for the subsequent Kasturirangan Commission, which diluted the
recommendations to a level more acceptable to the state governments.[19] He has been credited by many
with the introduction of quantitative investigations of ecology and animal behaviour in India and for
including humans as a vital part of ecosystems.[18][26] His contributions, as a member of the draft
committee, has been reported in the preparation of the Biological Diversity Act 2002[27] and the manual
he prepared for the People's Biodiversity Registers has been accepted by the National Biodiversity
Authority.[22] He is still associated with the Authority in the preparation of a biodiversity inventory at the
local bodies' level.[22]

Gadgil is known to have done extensive researches in the areas of population biology, conservation
biology, human ecology and ecological history. His researches have been documented by over 250
scientific articles,[11] published in various journals and magazines.[28] He developed a penchant for
writing at an early age and his first publication was a series of ten articles on animal behaviour, published
in Srishtidnyan, a Marathi language science magazine, when he was studying in the 10th standard.[18] His
doctoral thesis is reported to have been a citation classic.[18][29] He published his first book in English,
This Fissured Land, a book on the ecological history of India, in 1992.[30] The next book, Ecology and
Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India,[31] again co-authored by Ramachandra
Guha, was released in 1995, followed by Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda, a book co-authored
by P. R. Seshagiri Rao, in 1998.[32] In 2005, he published two books, Diversity : The cornerstone of
life[33] and Ecological Journeys.[34] As a part of his responsibilities as a Pew Fellow in Conservation and
the Environment,[35] he has contributed towards the preparation of People's Biodiversity Registers and
has published a manual, People's Biodiversity Registers: A Methodology Manual.[36][37] Some of his
books have been translated into many languages and serve as texts for academic studies.[25] He has also
published two books,[16] Nisarganiyojan Lokasahabhagane being one among them,[29] and over 40
articles in Marathi and handled a fortnightly column on natural history, in The Hindu, from 1999 till
2004.[22] He handles a monthly column in the Marathi daily, Sakal.[22]

Books

Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha (1992). This Fissured Land. Oxford University Press
India. p. 312. ISBN 9780198077442.
Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha (1995). Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of
Nature in Contemporary India. Routeledge. p. 223. ISBN 978-0415125246.
Madhav Gadgil, P. R. Seshagiri Rao (1998). Nurturing Biodiversity: An Indian Agenda.
Centre for Environment Education. p. 163. ISBN 9788186385135.
Madhav Gadgil (2005). Diversity : The cornerstone of life. Vigyan Prasar. p. 64.
ISBN 8174800263.
Madhav Gadgil (2005). Ecological Journeys. Orient Blackswan. p. 257.
ISBN 9788178241128.
Madhav Gadgil (2013), Science, democracy and ecology in India. Nehru Memorial Museum
& Library ISBN 978-8187614760 [38]

Awards and recognition

The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) elected him as their Fellow in 1984.[11] Six years later, the
two other major science academies of India, The Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)[8] and the National
Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), followed suit by electing him as a Fellow in 1990.[39] He is Fellow
of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), an honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical
Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and a recipient of the National Environment Fellowship of the
Ministry of Environment and Forests for his field research in the Western Ghats.[40] He was elected as a
Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1991[41] and he serves as a member of the
British Ecological Society and Ecological Society of America.[3][40]
The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian
honour of the Padma Shri in 1981[6] and the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR), an autonomous government
agency awarded him Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science
and Technology, the highest Indian award in the Science and
Technology sector, in 1986.[42] In between, in 1983, the
Government of Karnataka honoured him with Rajyotsava
Prashasthi, their second highest civilian award.[22] His alma mater,
Harvard University, presented him with the Harvard Centennial Dr. Madhav Gadgil and Col. Ashwin
Medal, an annual honour given to its alumni for their Baindur at Wikidata workshop in
achievements in their respective field of service, in 2002.[43] The Pune on 18 September 2017
next year, he shared the 2003 Volvo Environment Prize of the
Volvo Environment Prize Foundation, with Muhammad Yunus, the
social entrepreneur from Bangladesh.[44]

Gadgil received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award from the Government of India in
2006[6] and the H. K. Firodia award of the H. K. Firodia Foundation reached him a year later, in 2007.[45]
The Central University of Orissa honoured him with the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in
2013[26] and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) recognised the contributions of the Western
Ghats Ecology Experts Panel (WGEEP) and its chairman with the Georgescu-Roegen Award in 2014.[46]
The University of Southern California awarded him the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental
Achievement in 2015, which he shared with Jane Lubchenco, a Distinguished Professor of Oregon State
University,[25] making him the second Indian, after M. S. Swaminathan, to receive the Prize.[47] He is
also a recipient of the Vikram Sarabhai Award and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Award.[22]

He received the Fergusson Gaurav Puraskar 2019, for being an Outstanding Alumnus from his Alma
Mater, Fergusson College on 6 January 2019. The United Nations awardded hm the Champions of the
Earth award in 2024.[7]

Eponymy
Elaeocarpus gadgilii, is a tree species described in 2021 from the Nelliampathy hills in Palakkad district
of Kerala, India named in honour of him.[48]

See also
India portal

Environment portal

Ecology portal

This Fissured Land

Gadgil Commission
National Biodiversity Authority
National Council of Educational Research and Training
 National Advisory Council
National Tiger Conservation Authority
Agharkar Research Institute
Sulochana Gadgil
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil

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Further reading
Michael L. Lewis (2003). "Modern Ecology Comes to India" (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=0Bl8s5JCM4UC&pg=PA109). Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal
in India, 1947–1997. Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-1540-5.
"Report of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150920
103920/http://www.moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/wg-23052012.pdf) (PDF).
 Ministry of Environment and Forests. 2015. Archived from the original (http://moef.nic.in/dow
nloads/public-information/wg-23052012.pdf) (PDF) on 20 September 2015. Retrieved
7 October 2015.
Madhav Gadgil (2006). "Ecology is for the People: A Methodology Manual for People's
Biodiversity Register (Full Text)" (http://nbaindia.in/uploaded/docs/ec_for_ppl.pdf) (PDF).
Centre for Ecological Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
A. P. Deshpande (2011). Vidnyanyatri – Dr. Madhav Gadgil (https://web.archive.org/web/202
00629112035/http://www.menakabooks.com/rajhans-prakashan/5152-vidnyanyatri-dr-madh
av-gadgil-a-p-deshapnde-rajhans-prakashan-buy-online.html?nosto=nosto-page-category1).
Rajhans Prakashan. ISBN 9788174345516. Archived from the original (http://www.menakab
ooks.com/rajhans-prakashan/5152-vidnyanyatri-dr-madhav-gadgil-a-p-deshapnde-rajhans-p
rakashan-buy-online.html?nosto=nosto-page-category1) on 29 June 2020. Retrieved
8 October 2015.
Gadgil, M. (September 1993). "In love with life". Seminar (409): 25–30.

External links
"Home Page on IISc" (http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/cesmg/). Faculty home page. Indian
Institute of Science. 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
"A dialougue on Development & Environment" (https://web.archive.org/web/2016032515245
1/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkD8-UDNGQI). Students in conversation with Dr.
Madhav Gadgil and Dr. Amit Bhaduri- YouTube video. Goa University. 31 January 2014.
Archived from the original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkD8-UDNGQI) on 25 March
2016. Retrieved 8 October 2015.

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