In his young days he was associated with the Students Christian Movement of India, Awaz Mission in Chhattisgarh and Odisha and many others. For the past 35 years he has been working on many questions among indigenous Dalits and Adivasis people. Initially he worked with different organisations for a decade, after which he began to engage with the unreached, unengaged and frontier oppressed and marginalized social groups in Indian society to explore and express righteousness, justice, love, compassion and peace. At the national level he is the founder of many organizations In 2002, he co-founded the Centre for Justpeace in Asia (CJPA) within the Christian Confederate of Asia based in Hong Kong.
He has to his credit four books, four booklets and nearly 50 research articles/ chapters in peer review journals/ books. He has written over 500 articles in mainstream national and popular media such as The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Dainik Hindustan, People's Reporter, Deshbandhu, Dainik Chhattisgarh, Central Chronicle, Counter Currents, People's Voice and Forward Press as well as many others. Between 2002-10 he had been a regular columnist with Deshbandhu. Over 50 video interviews, lectures, key note addresses, panel discussions are widely available in YouTube and social media spaces too.
Dr. George has organised several international and national conventions, conferences, consultations, seminars and workshops. He made many keynote presentations in countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Belgium, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipines and South Korea. Between 2012-19, he trained nearly 2000 first generation leaders in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to bring righteousness and justice into the centre of all forms of spiritual engagements. Both sociologically and theologically he broke the divide between sacred (spiritual) and secular.
At the national level he has been working and associated with many movements and organisations in States like Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Tamilnadu, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. He has done many researches in many of these states too. He has addressed/ delivered lectures in many public spaces, platforms and universities and spaces in over 500 national programmes.
Academically he is an expert on research methodology with a specific focus on ethnography and anthropology. Between 2015-18, he was a member of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) expert panel on Research Methodology.
Dr. George was also a visiting faculty at TISS, Mumbai & Tuljapur, Hyderabad Central University, Delhi University, Utkal University Bhubaneswar, Satvahana University, Karimnagar. He has been the founding Chief Editor of the Journal of People's Studies. Till recently, he was the Research Director of Phule Centre for OBC [Bahujan] Studies (PCOS) in Bihar as well as Contributing Editor at Forward Press, New Delhi.
Through PCOS, in 2020, he began a training series for first generation leaders from the Dalit-Bahujan background in Bihar. In all, over 500 pastors and leaders benefited from it. He trains a number of FPG rural men and women on how to carry the divine love among the Bahujan masses in rural India. Through his community involvements, writings, faith reflection , teaching, public action, and public lectures, he has emerged as a prominent voice at the national level. The voice that responds: *mission as justice and righteousness* in the quest to rebuild the alienated relationships.
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