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Curriculum Vitae

DR SUMIT SAURABH SRIVASTAVA Assistant Professor

Centre for Development Studies Institute of Inter Disciplinary Studies (IIDS)

University of Allahabad New Academic Complex

Allahabad 211002 Uttar Pradesh India Phone: +91 9452373955 (Mobile) Email: sumit.manjula@gmail.com

Academic Distinctions / Awards

M.N. Srinivas Young Sociologist Award 2015 by the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi

Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from the University Grants Commission from 2005-2008

Professional Experiences

Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies (w.e.f. 03rd July 2010 and continuing)

Lecturer in Sociology, Government Degree College, Jakhini (Raja Talab), [affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith] Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh (13th October 2008 to 02nd July 2010)

Professional Development

Associated with Indian Anthropologist (ISSN 0970-0927, UGC Journal List No.: 20683, https://www.jstor.org/journal/indianth), bi-annual Journal of the Indian Anthropological Association, Delhi in the capacity of Assistant Editor.

Membership in Professional Bodies at National level:

o Life Member, Indian Anthropological Association (LMI 480)

o Life Member, Indian Sociological Society (LMI 3227)

o Life Member, Indian Association for Women’s Studies (LMI 27-l-0083)

o Life Member, Indian Political Science Association (LMI 2152)

o Life Member, Ethnographic & Folk Culture Society (LMI 291)

Research Area / Interest

o Development Studies with focus on caste and gender-based social exclusion

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Course and Syllabus Design

Prepared the following courses along with colleagues of Centre for Globalisation and Development Studies in 2010-12:

o Masters in Development Studies

o M.Phil. in Globalisation and Development

o D.Phil. in Globalisation and Development

o Bachelor- D.Phil. Programme in Globalisation and Development

o Combined Research Entrance Test (CRET) Syllabus

Research Guidance

(i) Surya Prakash Yadav (UGC JRF): Mahatma Gandhi Rastriya Gramin Rojgar Garanti Adhiniyam (2005) ka gramin rojgar evam pravasan par prabhav: Uttar Pradesh mein Azamgarh jile ke vishesh sandarbh mein ek adhyaan (Date of Registration: 30/01/2017)

(ii) Neda Fatima: Gender, education and development: a study of girls’ madrasas in Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh (Date of Registration: 12/04/2018)

(iii) Kriti Mishra (ICSSR Doctoral Fellow): Gender, sanitation and development: issues of accessibility and vulnerability with special reference to Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh (Date of Registration: 12/04/2018)

(iv) Arpita Singh: Interlinkages of liberalization, hunger mitigation and food security: a critical study of Public Distribution System in Uttar Pradesh from 1991- 2015 (Date of Registration: 23/01/2019)

(v) Prakhar Anand: Dynamics of vulnerability and livelihood strategies: an analytical study of urban poor in selected districts of Uttar Pradesh from 2000-2018 (Date of Registration: 23/01/2019)

Publications

Research Paper in Journal

2018. ‘Obituary: Saba Mahmood (13 February 1961 - 10 March 2018)’, Indian Anthropologist, 48(1): 99-101.

2017. ‘Sanitation, health and hygiene: dynamics and inter-linkages’, Samaja Shodhana (Journal of the Mangalore Sociology Association), March-October, 26(1& 2): 83-103.

2017. ‘Mahilaon ke viruddh hinsa: Ek narivadi paripekshya’, Manav (Inter-Disciplinary Research Journal of Anthropology & other Social Sciences published in Hindi by EFCS), Year 35, No. 1, pp. 63-76.

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

2016. ‘Ambedkar’s feminist legacy: some explorations’, Women's Link, July - September, 22(3): 16-21.

2015. ‘UN Security Council Resolution 1325: towards engendering peacebuilding process’, Review of Politics, XXIII(1-2): 38-48.

2015. ‘Report of the International Conference on Disability Studies in India: Reflections on Future (6-7 February, 2015)’, Indian Anthropologist, 45(2): 97-99.

2014. ‘Emergence of backward castes in Bihar politics: coalition, alignment and dominance’, Indian Journal of Political Science, LXXV(4): 675-686.

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

2014. ‘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.

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

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

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.

2012. ‘Obituary: Professor B.K. Roy Burman (1922-2012)’, Indian Anthropologist, 42(2): 14-115.

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

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

Chapter in Edited Book

2018. ‘Mapping the intersectionality: caste, gender and violence in India’, in Vikram Harijan (ed.): Problem of caste in India: Investigating history and historiography. Delhi: Meena Book Publications, pp. 405-412.

2018. ‘Achieving gender equality and women empowerment in India: with special reference to Millennium Development Goal’, in Kamlesh Gupta (ed.): State and Public Policy. New Delhi: Pentagon Press, pp. 245-259.

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2018. ‘Promises and challenges of Dalit entrepreneurship towards inclusive development’, in Richard Pais and M.H. Makwana (eds.): Social Inclusion and Development. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, pp. 124-164.

2015. ‘Globalization and transnational women’s activism: some preliminary observations’, in Kamlesh Gupta (eds.): Social movements and state in new global era. New Delhi: K.K. Publications, pp. 292-316.

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.

2013. ‘Feminist epistemology: Issues and debates’, in U.S. Bist (ed.): Contemporary Philosophy. Volume I. New Delhi: Satyam Publishing House, pp. 215-222.

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.

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. [1,231 Views Top 5% @ Academia Webpage]

Book Reviews

2016. Anjali Dave. Women survivors of violence: Genesis and growth of a state support system. Sociological Bulletin, 65(2): 295-298.

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. Ranjana Padhi. 2012. Those Who Did Not Die: Impact of the Agrarian Crisis on Women in Punjab. [Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2012]. The Book Review, July, XL(7): 34.

2015. Barbara Harriss-White with Others, Dalits and Adivasis in India's Business Economy: Three Essays and an Atlas, 2014. Three Essays Collective, Haryana, pp. vi + 190, ISBN 978-81-88789-86-3, Price: Rs. 2000. Indian Journal of Human Development, 9(2): 287-291.

2014. Kalyani Devi Menon. Everyday nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India. 2012. New Delhi: Social Science Press. pp. vii + 224. Man & Development. XXXVI(1): 147-149.

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

2013. Nivedita Menon. 2012. Seeing Like a Feminist. New Delhi: Zubaan & Penguin Books India. [ISBN: 978-0143067429 (PB)], pp. xii+252. Indian Anthropologist, 43(2): 87-88.

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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, 32(2): 105-107.

2012. Rowena Robinson & Joseph Marianus Kujur (eds.) 2010. Margins of Faith: Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India. New Delhi: SAGE. [ISBN: 978-81-321-0467-4(HB)]. Indian Anthropologist, 42(1): 91-93.

e-learning delivery process / Module for e-PG Pathshala

1. Module titled ‘Citizenship, Political Representation and Reservation for Women’, Subject: Sociology, P 10 Sociology of Gender, M 07.

2. Module titled ‘Violence at the Public places and Work place (Rape, Sexual Harassment, Street Sexual Abuse’, Subject: Sociology, P 10 Sociology of Gender, M 08.

3. Module titled ‘Theories on gender’, Subject: Women’s Studies. Gender: Psychology, sociology and Anthropology, P 5, M 9.

4. Module titled ‘Emerging sexualities: movements and rights’ Subject: Women’s Studies. Gender: Psychology, sociology and Anthropology, P 5, M 32.

5. Module titled ‘Globalisation and Anti-Systemic Social Movements: Recent Debates’, Subject: Sociology, P 14, Social Movements, M 22.

Invited Lectures

Delivered Special Lecture on ‘Understanding development: Dynamics and trajectory’ (15th February 2019), organized Department of Sociology, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad in collaboration with RC-26: Minority Studies, Indian Sociological Society (ISS)

Delivered Lectures in Three months Certificate Course on ‘Understanding Gender’ organized by Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018)

Delivered Special Lecture on ‘Sensitizing youth for inculcating entrepreneurial skills’ (06 March 2014) in Three-Day ‘Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp’ (06-08 March 2014), Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Kamla Nehru institute of Technology, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Delivered Special Lecture on ‘Interlinkages between entrepreneurship and globalization: some observations’ (26 February 2013) in Two weeks Faculty Development Programme (25th February to 8th March 2013) on “Entrepreneurship Development”, Mechanical Engineering Department, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh

Delivered Special Lecture on ‘Entrepreneurial activities among Scheduled Castes: Issues & Challenges’ (18 December 2013) in Two weeks Faculty Development Programme (16-27 December 2013) on “Entrepreneurship Development” Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Kamla Nehru institute of Technology, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh

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Papers presented in Seminar/ Conferences

1. ‘Women’s Movements: Global and Local Issues’ in X Conference of Indian Congress of Asian and Pacific Studies (4th–5th September 2010) organised by and held at University of Allahabad

2. ‘Sahab naa ab tohaar julam soshanva: Observations from Rural Bihar’ in XIII National Conference on “Resisting Marginalisations, Challenging Hegemonies, Re-visioning Gender Politics” (21st-24th January 2011) organized by Department of Women’s Studies, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidalaya, Wardha, Maharashtra and Indian Association for Women’s Studies, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

3. ‘Gender Empowerment in Millennium Development Goals with Special Reference to India’ in National Seminar on “Affirmative Action Policies and Marginalized Sections” (19th-20th February 2011) organized by Department of Political Science, University of Allahabad, Allahabad

4. ‘“Seminar Report” in National Conference on “Exploring Disability Experience in Social Science Research” (25th-26th March 2011) organized by Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

5. ‘Writings of A.R. Desai on Agrarian Unrest: Relevance in Understanding Violence in Rural Bihar’ in National Seminar on “Sociology in India and Bombay School: Retrospect and Prospect” (23rd – 24th September, 2011) organized by Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai & Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi

6. ‘Gender and Caste: Narratives of Violence and Resistance in Rural Bihar’, Young Sociologists Workshop, XXXVII All India Sociological Conference, Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi (9th – 10th December, 2011) Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi

7. ‘Emergence of kulak and Changing Nature of Caste-Class Conflict in Rural Bihar’, XXXVII All India Sociological Conference, Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi (11th–13th December, 2011) Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi; held at Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

8. ‘Feminist Epistemology: Issues and Debates’, Indian Philosophical Congress, 85th Session (23rd-25th February, 2012) organized by & held at Department of Philosophy, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

9. ‘Locating Gender in Dalit Discourse’, XXXVIII All India Sociological Conference on “Contemporary Indian Society: Challenges & Responses” (27th–29th December, 2012), Department of Sociology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan

10. ‘Men In/Doing Feminism’, National Conference on “Methods in Social science Research: Emerging Trends and Challenges” (23rd–24th March, 2013), Ethnographic & Folk Culture Society, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

11. ‘Locating Gender in Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Debate’, XXXVIX All India Sociological Conference on “Inequality, social justice and empowerment” (27-29 December, 2013), Karnataka State Open University, Mukthagangothri, Mysore, Karnataka

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12. ‘Persistence of clientelistic politics: Some observations from rural Bihar’, National Seminar on “Democracy in India: Emerging trends” (07-08 March, 2014) UGC-SAP, Department of Political Science & Nehru Studies Centre, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

13. ‘Re-reading gender, caste and violence through massacres in rural Bihar’ in National Seminar on “Gender and violence: a challenge for equitable society” (15-16 October 2014) organized by Dept. of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

14. ‘Reclaiming the Space: Violence & Counter Violence in Central-Indian Tribal Belt’ in XL (40th) All-India Sociological Conference (November 29, 30 & December 01 2014) organized by Department of Sociology, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi 221002, Uttar Pradesh

15. ‘National security in globalized world: issues and challenges’ in XXVIII IACS International Conference on “Globalization, environment, education & culture: India and Canada”, (5-7 January 2015) organized by University of Allahabad & Indian Association for Canadian Studies

16. ‘The Conference Report’ in International Conference on Disability Studies in India: Reflections on future (6-7 February 2015) organized by Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

17. ‘Dalits in Neo-liberal Indian economy’ in National Seminar on “New Dalit agenda for 21st century” (11-12 April 2015) organized by Indus research Centre, New Delhi & Dr. Ambedkar Chair in Social Justice, IIPA, New Delhi

18. ‘Nehru’s philosophy of tribal development: some reflections, XXXXI All India Sociological Conference (27-29 December 2015), Dept. of Sociology & Social Work, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

19. ‘Exploring Dalit counter publics in neo-liberal India’, Most marginalized Dalits: mobilization and struggles for justice (29-30 March 2016), G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, (A Constituent Institute of the University of Allahabad), Jhusi, Allahabad

20. ‘Dalit feminism as a legacy of Ambedkar’s philosophy of protest’, in Two-Day National Symposium on ‘The Contribution of Babasaheb Ambedkar for Development of Modern India’, (13-14 April 2016) organized by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

21. ‘Male feminist’s tales from the field’, in National Seminar on ‘Negotiating fieldwork: Unfolding of institutional practices and contemporary challenges’, (16-17 September, 2016) organized by Indian Anthropological Association, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi

22. ‘Some explorations on public-private initiatives in tribal development in India’, in 42nd All India

Sociological Conference (27-30 December, 2016), organized by Indian Sociological Society and held at Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam

23. ‘Strengthening women’s political empowerment at grassroots level: case of The Hunger Project

(THP), Bihar’, in International Conference on ‘Politics, Society and Culture in South Asia’ (3-5 March, 2017), organized by Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, Lucknow and hosted by Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

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24. ‘Pierre Bourdieu on Symbolic Power & Symbolic Violence', 43rd All India Sociological Conference, Venue: Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (November 9-12, 2017)

25. 'Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): Reflections on Power, Politics and Language', in National Conference on Language, Culture and Minorities: Issues and Challenges (March 22 - 23, 2018), Department of Sociology, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad

26. 'Understanding gendered sanitation vulnerabilities in India: a partial re/view', National Seminar on ‘Sociology of Sanitation’ (25-27 June 2018), Organized by Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Samaldas Arts College, Bhavnagar and Sulabh International Centre for Action Sociology, New Delhi

27. 'Mapping the intersectionality: caste, gender and violence in India', Problems of caste in India: Investigating history and historiography (29-30 November 2018), Department of Medieval & Modern History, University of Allahabad

Academic Qualification

Ph.D. in Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2016)

o Title of the Ph.D. Thesis: Violence and resistance: Dalit women in rural Bihar o Supervisor: Prof. Nilika Mehrotra

M.Phil. in Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2007) (7.42 FGPA)

M. Phil. in Planning and Development: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2005) (CPI 9.06)

M.A. in Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2003) (6.18 FGPA)

Graduation in the Bachelors Degree of Arts with Honours in Sociology from Patna College, Patna University in 2000. (67%)

Passed Intermediate Arts from Patna College, Patna under Bihar Intermediate Education Council Patna in 1997 (64.11%)

Passed Matriculation from Netarhat Residential School, Netarhat, Ranchi under Bihar Secondary Education Board, Patna in 1995 (69.37%)

Personal Details

Date of Birth 29th March, 1980 Sex Male Languages Known Hindi and English Computer Proficiency Operating System: Windows

Fair command on MS-Office (Word and PowerPoint) Excellent Knowledge of Internet for Social Science Research

SUMIT SAURABH SRIVASTAVA