MICRO-BIO

• My research focuses on the post-developmental issues of subaltern communities in India. The conceptual frameworks, I deploy on my research are located into the questions of modernity, political economy and political culture. With such framework, I h.....More

  My research focuses on the post-developmental issues of subaltern communities in India. The conceptual frameworks, I deploy on my research are located into the questions of modernity, political economy and political culture. With such framework, I have studied education and inequality, the educational transformation of communities and political mobilization among the sub-stratum of society. These researches also built into the post-developmental stage to explore how the critical agencies to be understood. My stint as a faculty of Sociology at Jammu University (2005-2013), I developed an interest in studying the cultural life of the migrant community in the citadel of Jammu city. Moreover, I was co-convenor to organize intensive field-based research on Climate Change and Changing Rural Livelihood Pattern of Ladakh region in collaboration with the National Institute of Hydrology. I have conducted surveys on the Pahari speaking people of Jammu and Kashmir for the Govt of Jammu and Kashmir. Recently, I have finished a study on the Ladakhi youth studying at the universities of North India funded by UPE, JNU. Now I have undertaken a major project to investigate the political culture in the university campuses in north-India. Having associated with the activities of youth clubs, community organization, national service schemes, protest movements for human rights, dignity and eco-system, evaluation of development projects and field-based research activities; shaped my orientation as a researcher and organized my thoughts as to critically engage with development issues. A fraction of field experiences and research enquiries have provided me with a useful link between my further studies on public policy concerns in education and ecology and teaching on developmental discourses, perhaps voyage a step ahead of my disciplinary orientation in Sociology. As academic credential, I do hold a Doctorate and Master of Philosophy in Sociology from School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. I have published two books in credit: Education and Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-colonial India, Routledge: UK (2019) and Engaging with Modernity and Development in India (2012) and 17 papers in journals and edited books.

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EXPERIENCE

• Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • Faculty
  • Educational Studies
  • Present

• Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • Faculty
  • Educational Studies
  • November 2005 to Present

EDUCATION

• Jawaharlal Nehru University

  • Doctorate
  • July 2005 to March 2011

Links

• JNU