Pankaj Kumar
GITAM Deeemd to be University, Etchers Private Limited, Jawaharlal Nehru University, University of Delhi, People's Pulse
About
Dr Pankaj Kumar is an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GITAM Deemed to be University, Bengaluru. He completed his PhD from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The title of his thesis is: ‘Rammanohar Lohia and the Caste Question in India.’ He has completed his M.Phil from the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He wrote a dissertation on: ‘Privacy as Celebration of Alienation’. As an emerging scholar of the field, he believes that our theorisation should be grounded in empirical reality. He can be contacted at [email protected].
Employment
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GITAM Deeemd to be University Assistant Professor2024 - Present
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Etchers Private Limited Assisting a team of researchers on a Government of Bihar Project to update and revise the district gazetteers of two districts, Patna and Darbhanga2021 - Present
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People's Pulse Project Research Associate2021 - 2021
Education
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Jawaharlal Nehru University PhD in Political Science2019 - 2025
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University of Delhi M.Phil in Political Science2017 - 2019
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Jawaharlal Nehru University MA in Political Science2015 - 2017
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University of Delhi BA Honours Political Science2012 - 2015
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (10)
- Making Sense of Lohia’s Omission from Anti-caste Discourses in India Save
- Circumstantial Communalist or Hibernating Hindutva: The Paradoxes of Lala Lajpat Rai; Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood by Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, Gurugram: Penguin, 2024; pp xliii + 748, ₹1,299. Save
- Caste Politics and Hindutva in Northern India: From Antithetical to Allied? Save
- Debating Bureaucratic Apathy Institutional Decay and IAS Story in India Save
- Inner Contradictions of a Hindu Nationalist Save
- Rejigged SP Strategy: A New Dawn in Bahujan Politics? Save
- Privacy as a form of alienation: a critique of the liberal conception of privacy Save
- Caste Panchayats: Useful Insights and Inadequate Explanations Save
- The secret of Nitish Kumar’s political success Save
- The distinctiveness of Marxist conception of alienation Save