Dignity Initiative and Centre for Development Studies, Simla, India are pleased to invite you to the 17th Distinguished Lecture of the Global Dialogue on Dalit Studies in South Asia.
Speaker
Professor Narender Kumar
Center for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Topic
The Unfinished March: Dalit Consciousness and Political Participation
Event Details:
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- Date: 27th May 2025
- Time: 08:00 PM Nepal | 07:45 PM India | 10:15 AM USA | 02:15 PM UK
- Meeting ID: 824 6998 0791
- Passcode: 225228
- Zoom Link: Join Session
Format
Professor Narender Kumar will speak for about 40 minutes. The talk will be followed by a chat-box moderated Q&A session.
Contact
Rup Sunar
Chairperson, Dignity Initiative, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: info@dignityinitiatives.org
Dr. Prashant Negi
Assistant Professor, Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Email: negiprashant@gmail.com
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Aboout the Speaker:
Professor Narender Kumar is currently at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier he was with Dr. K. R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow and Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University.
A recipient of the prestigious Indo-French Social Sciences Fellowship, 2011 awarded by the University Grants Commission, Professor Kumar was a member of Indo-European Network Programme, which included the following institutions: CERI, Paris, London School of Economics, Kings College, London, JNU and BBAU, Lucknow. He has published extensively and is widely acknowledged for his work and activism on the Dalits and political participation, affirmative action and reservation policy in India.
Some of his recent publications include:
• With Sudhir Kumar Suthar, Reservation Policy in India: State, Social Justice and Affirmative Action, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2024.
• Politics and Religion in India, London and New Delhi: Routledge, 2020.
• (Eds.) with Christophe Jaffrelot, Dr. Ambedkar and Democracy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• With Jungung Choi, Reservation Policy for Backward Classes: Extent and Determinants of Support, Economic and Political Weekly, 54 (51), 2019.
• Continuance of Manual Scavenging: Intergroup Inequality or Policy Paralysis? Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 2 (2): 28-41 January-June, 2016.
• Representation, Hegemony and Governance: Alternative Contestations, Journal of History and Society of South Asia, Sage, 2011.