Manish K Thakur
Biographic Data
| ID | 143964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manish K Thakur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manish K |
| FAMILY NAME | Thakur |
| SIGNATURE | THAKUR M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goa University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in STEM-related Higher Education in India
This paper explores the gendered structures of care, time, and institutional culture, as they shape women's participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and employment pathways in India. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with female STEM graduates, professionals and academics between 2021 and 2023, it analyses how care responsibilities, time poverty, and patriarchal norms interact to constrain women's ab…
Democracy, Pluralism and the Religious Minorities: The Muslim Question in India
On the basis of a critical examination of the report of the high-level committee on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India (also known as the Sachar Committee Report) and the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission Report, the article foregrounds issues relating to the perceived appeasement, marginalisation, discrimination and social exclusion of Muslims in India. Despite being the largest religious minorities group in the cou…
Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology
Global Discourses and Local Mobilisations: The Case of ‘Barh Mukti Abhiyan’
This paper examines the nature of claim-making and the mobilisation politics of 'Barh Mukti Abhiyan' (BMA) in the state of Bihar in the context of its interactions with globally circulating discourses on big dams, river-valley projects, and embankments. It presents a differentiated and contingent understanding of BMA without prejudging it as a heroic environmental movement with a sense of common purpose and identity. While appreciating the signif…
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics by Tania Murray Li
India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform by Leela Fernandes
Lines of the nation: Indian railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self - By Laura Bear
The meaning of the local: Politics of place in urban India - Edited by Geert De Neve & Henrike Donner
Crisis and Contention in Indian Society
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism edited by Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
Data Collection and Analysis 2nd Edition
Visions in conflict: The village in the nationalist discourse
Early colonial scholar-administrators preferred to describe Indian society as a sum total of self-sufficient ‘little republics’-its villages. The view stemmed not from the prevailing constitution of the Indian society but because of the imperatives of consolidating an empire over an alien land. Post-Independence, the caste-view of Indian society overtook the village-view. The village declined in significance as labelling of social groups and reco…
Dalit politics and the Indian State: Changing landscape, emerging agendas
The conscious effort on the part of dalit activism to take the issue of dalit empowerment beyond the pale of the agency of the modernising State and firmly place it in the arena of global civil society, and the frequent appeal to the United Nations or the international human rights bodies to pressurise and morally coerce the Indian State, is part of the new dalit political tactics. This dampens the formation of a critical dalit consciousness by a…
How Effective are ‘Pani Panchayats’? A Fieldview from Maharashtra
Cet article fait part du developpement du systeme d'irrigation des pani panchayat en Inde. L'A. explique ici l'emergence de ce systeme agraire qui participe a la reduction des inegalites sociales et compare son effectivite dans plusieurs endroits, pour s'interroger sur l'indiference gouvernementale ainsi que sur les possibilites de developpement durable d'une telle organisation sociale
Remembering Arvind Narayan das (1948–2000)
Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology
Democracy, Pluralism and the Religious Minorities: The Muslim Question in India
On the basis of a critical examination of the report of the high-level committee on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India (also known as the Sachar Committee Report) and the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission Report, the article foregrounds issues relating to the perceived appeasement, marginalisation, discrimination and social exclusion of Muslims in India. Despite being the largest religious minorities group in the cou…
Global Discourses and Local Mobilisations: The Case of ‘Barh Mukti Abhiyan’
This paper examines the nature of claim-making and the mobilisation politics of 'Barh Mukti Abhiyan' (BMA) in the state of Bihar in the context of its interactions with globally circulating discourses on big dams, river-valley projects, and embankments. It presents a differentiated and contingent understanding of BMA without prejudging it as a heroic environmental movement with a sense of common purpose and identity. While appreciating the signif…
Dalit politics and the Indian State: Changing landscape, emerging agendas
The conscious effort on the part of dalit activism to take the issue of dalit empowerment beyond the pale of the agency of the modernising State and firmly place it in the arena of global civil society, and the frequent appeal to the United Nations or the international human rights bodies to pressurise and morally coerce the Indian State, is part of the new dalit political tactics. This dampens the formation of a critical dalit consciousness by a…
Remembering Arvind Narayan das (1948–2000)
How Effective are ‘Pani Panchayats’? A Fieldview from Maharashtra
Cet article fait part du developpement du systeme d'irrigation des pani panchayat en Inde. L'A. explique ici l'emergence de ce systeme agraire qui participe a la reduction des inegalites sociales et compare son effectivite dans plusieurs endroits, pour s'interroger sur l'indiference gouvernementale ainsi que sur les possibilites de developpement durable d'une telle organisation sociale
Dalit politics and the Indian State: Changing landscape, emerging agendas
The conscious effort on the part of dalit activism to take the issue of dalit empowerment beyond the pale of the agency of the modernising State and firmly place it in the arena of global civil society, and the frequent appeal to the United Nations or the international human rights bodies to pressurise and morally coerce the Indian State, is part of the new dalit political tactics. This dampens the formation of a critical dalit consciousness by a…
Visions in conflict: The village in the nationalist discourse
Early colonial scholar-administrators preferred to describe Indian society as a sum total of self-sufficient ‘little republics’-its villages. The view stemmed not from the prevailing constitution of the Indian society but because of the imperatives of consolidating an empire over an alien land. Post-Independence, the caste-view of Indian society overtook the village-view. The village declined in significance as labelling of social groups and reco…
Crisis and Contention in Indian Society
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism edited by Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
Data Collection and Analysis 2nd Edition
India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform by Leela Fernandes
Lines of the nation: Indian railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self - By Laura Bear
The meaning of the local: Politics of place in urban India - Edited by Geert De Neve & Henrike Donner
Global Discourses and Local Mobilisations: The Case of ‘Barh Mukti Abhiyan’
This paper examines the nature of claim-making and the mobilisation politics of 'Barh Mukti Abhiyan' (BMA) in the state of Bihar in the context of its interactions with globally circulating discourses on big dams, river-valley projects, and embankments. It presents a differentiated and contingent understanding of BMA without prejudging it as a heroic environmental movement with a sense of common purpose and identity. While appreciating the signif…
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics by Tania Murray Li
Radhakamal Mukerjee and the Quest for an Indian Sociology
Democracy, Pluralism and the Religious Minorities: The Muslim Question in India
On the basis of a critical examination of the report of the high-level committee on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India (also known as the Sachar Committee Report) and the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission Report, the article foregrounds issues relating to the perceived appeasement, marginalisation, discrimination and social exclusion of Muslims in India. Despite being the largest religious minorities group in the cou…
Bridging the Gender Gap: Women in STEM-related Higher Education in India
This paper explores the gendered structures of care, time, and institutional culture, as they shape women's participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and employment pathways in India. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with female STEM graduates, professionals and academics between 2021 and 2023, it analyses how care responsibilities, time poverty, and patriarchal norms interact to constrain women's ab…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)