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Books:
Shifting Manifestations: Scheduled Castes in Jammu and Kashmir’ (2009); ‘Marginality, Exclusion and Social Justice’, (eds.), (2013); ‘Sociology of Sanitation: Themes and Perspectives’, (2014-15)
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•	‘Urban Social Space and Weaker Sections: A Case Study of Jammu City’, for Dr. Ambedkar Studies Centre, University of Jammu, 2010.
Articles in Journals: 
Towards Sedentarization of Transhuming Tribals: A Case Study of Gujjars of Jammu Siwaliks’ in Journal of Social Anthropology, Vol. 1 (2). 2004.
•	‘Efficacy of Multimedia Technology in Indigenous Knowledge Management’ co-authored with Shivrama Rao, in Convention Journal of Lucknow Management Association (IIM Lucknow), Vol. 1 No. 1, pp- 248-258 on theme “Transforming Villages into Vibrant & Prosperous Entities- Innovative Strategies”, Lucknow Management Association Publication, Lucknow 2005.
•	‘Another Leap towards Land Reforms in J&K’ in Mainstream, Vol. XLV No. 40, Sept. 22, 2007.
•	‘Rethinking Indian Villages: A Sociological appraisal’ in E-Bulletin International Sociological Association, No. 8, November 2007.
•	‘Democratic Decentralization: A way out for Peace-Building process in Jammu and Kashmir’ in Journal of ‘Security & Society’, Vol. 3, No. 2, winter 2007. (ISSN: 2231—6000)
•	‘Reflections on Democratic Decentralization in J&K’ in Economic and Political weekly, Vol. XLIII No. 9, March 1-7, 2008.
•	‘The Roaring call of Mayawati in J&K’ in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 72. No. 3. June 2008.
•	‘Pragmatism of implementation of Panchayati Raj in J&K: A Critical Appraisal’ in Indian Journal of Federal Studies, No. 2, 2008.
•	‘Looking beyond Amarnath Shrine Controversy: A Rational Perspective’ in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 72. No. 7. October 2008.
•	‘Tradition And Change Among The Tribal Gujjars Of Jammu Siwaliks’ in Eastern Anthropologists, Vol. 61, No. 4, Oct-Dec. 2008. (ISSN 0012-8686)
•	‘Religion, Caste and Community: Identity Substantiation through ‘Maile’ Congregations among the Dogras of Jammu and Kashmir (India)’ in ‘Politics and Religion’ Center for Studies of Religion and Religious Tolerance which is established in Belgrade, Serbia; issue no.1/2009  Volume III(ISSN 1820-6581).
•	‘Religion, Caste and Community: A Sociological Exploration of ‘Maile’ Congregations among the Dogra Community of Jammu Region’ in ‘Journal of Humanities and Social Science’ VNSGU, Veer Narmad, South Gujarat University, Surat, Issue no.2, July-December 2009, Volume 1 (ISSN 0975-637X).
•	‘Inter-district recruitment bill, J&K: A tribute to Ambedkar’, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/10apr20/edit.htm, 20th April, 2010.
•	‘Governance and Injustice in the tenuous state: Narratives from Jammu region’ in Journal of ‘Security & Society’ Vol. 5, No. 1-2, summer-winter 2010. (ISSN: 2231—6000)
•	‘State, Governance and the Conflicting Situation: Contemplations from J&K State’ in ICFAI University Journal of ‘International Relations” September 2011, Vol. V, No. 4. (ISSN: 0973—8509)
•	‘Land acquisition Bill’ in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 75. No. 6. September 2011.
•	‘Shifting identities in the era of globalization: Emerging concerns for ‘marginals’ in India’ in proceedings of ‘The 1st World Humanities Forum’, 2011.
•	Issues on social justice and the marginalized: contextualizing scheduled castes in J&K state’ in Journal of ‘Social and Political Studies,’ Vol. II (2), December 2011. (ISSN 2229-3647).
•	 ‘Portraying Weaker Sections Vis-À-Vis India’s Urban Social Space: Manifestations from Jammu City of J&K State’ in e-Journal of ‘Sociological Bulletin’ Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012.
•	‘MGNREGA at Work: Glimpses from Rural Uttar Pradesh’ in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 76. No. 6. September 2012.
•	‘Religious Landscape, Low Caste Hindus And The Identity Politics: Configuration Of Socio-Religious Space For Weaker Sections In Jammu City, J&K (India)’ co-authored with Vijaylaxmi Saxena, in ‘Politics and Religion’ Center for Studies of Religion and Religious Tolerance which is established in Belgrade, Serbia; issue no.1/2013  Volume VII. (ISSN: 1820-6581).
•	”Adhunik Bharat me Dharmikta evam Swachta: Ek Samajshastriya Paripeksh” in ‘Bhartiya Samajshastra Sameeksha’ (under Bhartiya Samajshastra Parishad); January To June, Volume 4 (2); 2017 (ISSN: 2349-1396). 
•	”State Initiatives and Lower castes in India: Analyzing mobility of the Scheduled Castes in Jammu Region” in ‘Sociological Bulletin’; Volume 66 (3), 1-17; 2017 (ISSN: 0038-0229). 
Articles in Books((last 5 years):

•	‘Identity and Politics of Dalits of J&K: Rhetoric and Reality’, in Mohd. Tajuddin & Baljit S. Mann (eds), Politics of Identities in Jammu & Kashmir – A Contested Terrain, Jay Kay Book House, Jammu, 2008.
•	‘Locating prospects of dalits in the era of globalization: some critical reflections’ in Debal K SinghaRoy’s (eds.), Surviving Against Odds- The marginalized in a globalizing world, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2010. (ISBN 978-81-7304-878-4)
•	‘Inclusive policies, State Politics and the ‘Marginals: Concerns for Weaker Sections in J&K State’ in S.N. Tripathy & O.P. Shukla (eds.), Socio-economic issues on vulnerable people in India, Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, 2012. (ISBN 978-93-81136-63-8)
•	‘Agrarian Society, Economic Reforms and the Concerns for Marginals: Opportunities and Challenges from Rural India’ in K.N.Bhatt & Pradeep Bhargava (eds.), Agrarian change and small farmers – Super markets, Viability and Food policy, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi, 2014 (ISBN 93-5125-033-4). 
•	‘Globalization and the Transnationalism of ‘Dalit’ identity: Probings from modern India’ in Ajaya K. Sahoo & J.G. Kruijf (eds.), Indian Transnationalism Online, Ashgate Publishing Company, England, 2014 (ISBN 978-1-4724-1913-2).
•	‘Dynamics of economic reforms and revamping rural India: Opportunities and Challenges’ in Ishwar Modi (eds.), Polity, Civil Society and development, Rawat Publisher, Jaipur, 2014 (ISBN 978-81-316-0642-1).
•	‘State policies, Weaker sections and Rural India: An inclusive development through MGNREGA in rural U.P.’ in Manvendra Pratap Singh (eds.), Social development in India, Bharat Book Centre, Lucknow, 2014 (ISBN 978-81-7678-223-4).
•	‘Movement towards the Green Pilgrimage: Mapping environmental sanitation issues in Kumbh Mela at prayag’ in Bindeshwar Pathak (eds.), Sociology of Sanitation – Environmental sanitation, public health & social deprivation, Kalpaz Publisher, Delhi, 2015 (ISBN 978-93-512-8089-7).
•	‘Developmentality, Multimedia Technologies and Growing Ecological Concerns in Global era’ co-author Vijaylaxmi Saxena,  in Manish Verma (eds.), Globalization and environment – Discourse, Policies and Practices, Rawat Publisher, Jaipur, 2015 (ISBN 978-81-316-0709-1).
•	‘Civil society concern for the Dalit in New Global Era ’  in Kamlesh Gupta (eds.), Social Movements and State in New Global Era, K.K. Publisher, New Delhi, 2015 (ISBN 978-81-7844-227-3).
•	‘Issues on social justice and the marginalized: contextualizing scheduled castes in J&K state’, in M.P. Dube (ed) Social Justice in India: Emerging Issues, Rawat Publisher, New Delhi. 2016.
•	‘Changing situations of Dalit identities in J&K State: Some reflections’, in Amarnath Paswan (ed) Social and political aspects of community consciousness, Victorious Publisher, New Delhi. 2016 (ISBN 978-93-84224-56-1).
•	‘Anticipating Alternative development through multimedia technologies: Perspectives from rural India’, co-author Ashish Saxena in ‘G. Ram (ed.) “Emerging perspectives on development in India, Winshield Press, New Delhi, 2016 (ISBN: 978-81-930-7037-6). 
•	‘Religiousity, Environmental Strands And Social Justice: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis Of Kumbh Mela At Allahabad City’, co-author Ashish Saxena in ‘Manish K Verma (eds.) “Globalization Social Justice and Sustainable Development in India”, Gyan Publisher, New Delhi, 2017 (ISBN: 978-81-2121-41-55). 
Book Review:
•	Samit Kar (ed.): Globalisation: One world, many voices (Essays in honour of Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee), in Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 55, No.3 Sept-Dec 2006. 
•	Praveen Swami: India, Pakistan and the secret jihad- The covert war in Kashmir, 1947-2004 for International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden; the Netherlands, 2007.
•	Susan Hagood Lee: “Rice Plus” Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia. New York: Routledge, 2006, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 14: 3, Sage Publications: Delhi. (2007).
•	R.H McLeod & Andrew MacIntyre: “Indonesia:  Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance”. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007, in ICFAI University Journal of International Relations” Vol. II, No. 4 (2008).
•	Aparna Rao (ed.): Valley of Kashmir – “The making and unmaking of composite culture”, New Delhi: Manohar, Publisher, 2008, in Asia Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 , pp 103-106, (2010).
•	Ciotti, Manuela: Argumentative Indian Chamars: A Subaltern Narrative of Modernity for New Asia books, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden; the Netherlands, (2011).
•	Baral, Lok Raj: Nepal – Nation-state in the Wilderness: Managing State, Democracy, and Geopolitics, Sage publication, in Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34:4, 471-474, Taylor & Francis Co. (2013).
•	Lucinda Platt: Understanding Inequalities – Stratification and Difference, in International Sociology 2013; 28 233-236, (2013).
•	Manoj Kumar (ed.): Corporate social responsibility: Contemporary issues in India, in Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 62, No. 3 Sept-Dec 2013. 
•	K.S. Chalam (ed.): Governance in South Asia – State of the civil services, in Sociological Contemporary South Asia, August, 2016. (ISSN: 0958-4935)
•	Sanatan Bhowal (ed.): The Subaltern speaks: Truth and ethics in Mahasweta Devi’s fiction on tribals, in Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 65, No. 3 Sept-Dec 2016.

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