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satendra kumar @reasonbuster72

Anthropological nomad, researching political movements, labour struggles, agrarian political economy, caste identities and inequalities, democratic politics!

Joined February 2009
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Dalit Mobilzations in Punjab, North India 6.12. academia.edu/145306707/Dalit… via @academia

Dalit Mobilzations in Punjab, North India 6.12.

This paper challenges the notion that political and cultural assertion among the Dalit community signals revolutionary transformation. Drawing primarily on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork that...

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<span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Challenging the Status Quo: Dalit Assertion and Persistent Inequality in Punjab</span> journals.openedition.org//sa… via @OpenEditionActu

Challenging the Status Quo: Dalit Assertion and Persistent Inequali...

This article explores the Dalit struggle for village common land in Punjab—a movement that has already secured access to land in over 150 villages across Sangrur, Mansa, Patiala, and Malerkotla—by ...

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The Time of Youth epw.in/journal/2016/53/uttar…

The Time of Youth

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My new piece on India’s Agrarian Crisis in the Making of Farmers’ Protests epw.in/journal/2025/18/insig…

India’s Agrarian Crisis in the Making of Farmers’ Protests

On 12 February 2024, tens of thousands of Indian farmers marched towards New Delhi, the capital, to demand guaranteed crop prices, rOn 12 February 2024, tens of thousands of Indian farmers marched...

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Rituals of Selection: UGC’s New Draft and Politics of Faculty Recruitment in Indian Universities – Vidyasagar Sharma @vidyabxr doingsociology.org/2025/03/2…

Rituals of Selection: UGC’s New Draft and Politics of Faculty Recruitment in Indian Universities -...

The ongoing structural and institutional changes in Indian higher education have led to the emergence of highly political academic environments, where ideological affiliations and political patronage...

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My new article in a German Magazine: Indiens Bauern protestieren wieder welt-sichten.org/node/42886
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Shifting Grounds: Society and Politics in Haryana - goo.gl/scholar/dkMdMx #ScholarAlerts
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Satendra Kumar wrote: Shifting Grounds: Society and Politics in Haryana theindiaforum.in/politics/sh… @TheIndiaForum

Shifting Grounds: Society and Politics in Haryana

Haryana's social and political landscape is in the midst of a transition, with both backward castes and the younger generation of Jats seeking to break away from the old agrarian order. So far, only...

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"While the Jatavs have utilised reservations and education to improve their lives, other groups like the Balmikis, Khatiks, and Dhanuks have faced discrimination and feel left behind." @reasonbuster72 theindiaforum.in/politics/sh… @TheIndiaForum

Shifting Grounds: Society and Politics in Haryana

Haryana's social and political landscape is in the midst of a transition, with both backward castes and the younger generation of Jats seeking to break away from the old agrarian order. So far, only...

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Towards a Theorisation of Emerging New Sociality in Western Uttar Pradesh epw.in/journal/2023/40/book-…

Towards a Theorisation of Emerging New Sociality in Western Uttar Pradesh

Badalta Gaon, Badalta Dehat: Nayi Samajikta ka Uday by Satendra Kumar, Oxford University Press, 2018; pp xxii 156, `275 (paperback). For Delhiites, the image of the loud-mouthed uncouth (sub)urban...

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My take on Haryana Assembly Elections!
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India’s Agrarian Crisis and Changing Countryside online.ucpress.edu/currenthi…

India’s Agrarian Crisis and Changing Countryside

A mass protest by farmers camped outside New Delhi in 2020–21 persuaded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to repeal laws that aimed to further liberalize Indian agricultural markets. The...

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Why and how is Indian democracy still vibrant? A middle caste study shows in this review of Popular Democracy and Politics of Caste academia.edu/123135915/Revie… via @academia

Review of Popular Democracy and Politics of Caste

In Popular Democracy and the Politics of Caste: Rise of the Other Backward Classes in India, Kumar traverses the political landscapes present in western Uttar Pradesh (UP) through caste, democracy...

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