Sumit Srivastava

Region of Interest

South Asia

Primary Country of Residence

India

Title

Dr.

Affiliation

University of Allahabad

Email

sumit.manjula@gmail.com

Mailing Address

Dr. Sumit Saurabh Srivastava
Assistant Professor
Centre for Development Studies
New Academic Complex [Old FCI Building]
University of Allahabad, Allahabad
Uttar Pradesh 211002
(India)

Countries of Specialization

India

Education

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Research Interests

Development Studies
Caste and Gender Intersectionality

Teaching Interests

Development Studies
Caste and Gender Intersectionality

Publications

Journal Articles

2007. “Violence and Dalit women’s resistance in rural Bihar”, Indian Anthropologist, 37(2): 31-44.

2011. “Seminar Report: Exploring disability experience in social science research”, Indian Anthropologist, 41(1): 101-106.

2012. “State, Senas and sites of violence: Bearing of A.R. Desai’s works on the understanding of Rural Bihar”, The Eastern Anthropologist, 65(1): 33-52.

2013. “How near, how far: India and environment related Millennium Development Goals (MDG)”, Journal of Social and Political Studies, IV(2): 116-136.

2013. “Entrepreneur & entrepreneurship in the era of globalisation: Some observations from India”, Madhya Pradesh Journal of Social Sciences, June, 18(1): 94-111.

2013-14. “Public Policy and Gender Budgeting in India”, Research Journal of Politics and Administration, IX-XII: 28-41.

2014. “Revisiting partition, 1947: Gender, community and violence”, Social Action, April-June, Vol. 64, pp. 123-135.

2014. “Disciplining the ‘Desire’: ‘Straight’ State and LGBT Activism in India”, Sociological Bulletin, 63(3): 368-385.

2014. “Emergence of Backward Castes in Bihar Politics: Coalition, Alignment and Dominance”, The Indian Journal of Political Science, November-December, LXXV(4): 675-686.

2015. "UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Towards engendering peace building process", Review of Politics, XXIII(1-2): 38-48.

2016. “Ambedkar’s Feminist Legacy: Some Explorations”, Women’s Link, Vol. 22, No. 3, July – September, pp. 16-21.

2017. 'Aspiring modernity, lingering traditionalism: explorations of clientele & patronage politics in India', The Eastern Anthropologist, 70(1-2): 21-38.

Book Chapters

2011. “Bodhgaya land movement: A struggle for women and land rights”, in M.N. Singh et al. (eds.) Gramin Mahilayein evam ling bhed. Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU), Allahabad: Allahabad. Uttar Pradesh. pp. 93-99. [ISBN: 978-81-921668-2-7].

2013. “Gender justice, marginalization and violence: Dalit women in rural Bihar”, in Ashish Saxena (ed.) Marginality, Exclusion and Social Justice. Jaipur: Rawat Publications. pp. 261-278. [ISBN: 978-81-316-0568-4].

2013. “Feminist epistemology: Issues and debates”, in U.S. Bist (ed.) Contemporary Philosophy. Volume I. New Delhi: Satyam Publishing House. pp. 215-222. [ISBN: 978-93-81632-63-5].

2013. “Role of women’s movements in advancing gender justice in India”, in Kamlesh Gupta, Trivikram Tiwari and Nandini Basistha (eds.) Changing Dimensions of Social Justice in the New Global Era: Indian Experiences. New Delhi: Pentagon Press. pp. 192-208. [ISBN: 978-81-8274-655-8].

2015. "Globalisation and transnational women's activism: Some preliminary observations", in Kamlesh Gupta (ed.): Social movements and state in new global era. New Delhi: K.K. Publications. pp. 292-316. [ISBN: 978-81-7844-227-3].

Book Review

2012. Rowena Robinson & Joseph Marianus Kujur (eds.) 2010. Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India. New Delhi: SAGE. [ISBN: 978-81-21-0467-4 (HB)]. Indian Anthropologist, [ISSN/ ISBN No.: 0970-0927], 42(1): 91-93.

2013. Martha C. Nussbaum. Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Ranikhet, Permanent Black, 2011, Hardbound, xii + 237 pp., Rs. 595. [ISBN 81-7824- 329-6 (HB)]. The Eastern Anthropologist, 66 (2-3): 367-369.

2013. Dev Nathan and Virginius Xaxa (eds.) 2012. Social Exclusion and Adverse Inclusion: Development and Deprivation of Adivasis in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Pages i-xxii and 335. [ISBN.10:0-19-807893-5]. IASSI-Quarterly, [ISSN/ ISBN No.: 0970-9061], 32(2): 105-107.

2013. Nivedita Menon. 2012. Seeing Like a Feminist. New Delhi: Zubaan & Penguin Books India. [ISBN: 978-0143067429 (PB)], pp. xii+252. Indian Anthropologist, [ISSN/ ISBN No.: 0970-0927], :43(2): 87-88.

2014. Kalyani Devi Menon. 2012. Everyday nationalism: women of the Hindu right in India. New Delhi: Social Science Press. Pp. viii+224. Price Rs. 650/-. Man & Development, [ISSN/ ISBN No.: 0258-0438], March, XXXVI(1): 147-149.

2016. Ranjana Padhi. 2012. Those who did not die: impact of the agrarian crisis on women in Punjab. New Delhi: Sage Publications. The Book Review, Volume XL, Number 7, July 2016, pp. 34.

2016. T.N. Madan (ed.). 2013. Sociology at the University of Lucknow: The First Half Century (1921–1975). Society and Culture in South Asia, July, (2): 314-316.

2016. Anjali Dave. Women survivors of violence: Genesis and growth of a state support system. Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 65, No. 2, May - August, pp. 295-298.

Obituary

2012. Professor B.K. Roy Burman. Indian Anthropologist, [ISSN/ ISBN No.: 0970-0927], 42(2): 114-115.

Keywords

Caste, Gender, Violence, India