Nilotpal Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nilotpal Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nilotpal |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Azim Premji University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The House of Kanooru”
In 2008, David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock, argued that “works of literary fiction” (2008: 199) combine the ‘art of storytelling’ with the significance of human experience. Taking cue from this argument, this essay focuses on The House of Kanooru (1999), a novel about Indian rural social life, and discusses its depiction of subjective experiences. We describe how this portrayal of subjective experiences, associated with family con…
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture
Fragmented marginalities
Analogous to the Euro-American context, Indian cities are usuallyconceptualised as socio-spatial forms where communities at theperipheries of ‘development’ constitute ‘urban margins’. However,such conceptualisations rarely interrogate the varied aspects ofmarginality within those spaces. Drawing from an ethnographywith dispossessed peasantry (in ‘urban villages’) and migrantlabour (in slums/jhuggis) in Noida, a north-Indian city, we unpackthree a…
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities
This article focuses on a relatively overlooked dimension of urban development in India: the nature of community-making in new urban spaces. Using concepts from sociological and geographical literature on community formation, it examines the relationship between specific forms of urbanisation in contemporary (neo-liberal) India and community-making processes. The study is situated in the city of Noida within the national capital region in norther…
Producing multiple ‘others’
This article examines two simultaneous dynamics in contemporary India: the development of new urban spaces, and an intensification of Hindu nationalism (Hindutva). Examining the case of Noida (a township adjacent to Delhi), this article suggests that the entrepreneurial mode of urban development [Harvey 2006. Spaces of Global Capitalism. New York: Verso] has restructured local spaces, which in turn may give rise to rival attempts at group making,…
Towards a Horticultural Society
India has seen a deceleration in the area and yield growth rates of many food and cash crops since the 1990s. The area and production of horticulture has, however, grown impressively in the post-liberalization period. This paper is a case study of this “restructuring” in a semi-arid village in Andhra Pradesh from a longue durée perspective. It suggests that horticulture has enabled a small class of pioneering Reddy farmers and some Kuruba farmers…
Aham, Swartham, and Poti
This chapter discusses the transition in familial relations that constitute a part of the context for suicidal behaviours in Anantapur villages. It argues that there are processes of social fragmentation in family and inter-family kinship in a Durkheimian sense. Relationships amongst members of a household, family, and extended kin group are increasingly marked by economic self-interest, egoism, and status-related competition. The transition to i…
Unraveling Farmer Suicides in India
Understanding suicide
Few themes in the social sciences have been so riven by competing Kuhnian paradigms as that of suicide. At the cost of some simplification it can be said that studying suicide sociologically has im
Producing multiple ‘others’
This article examines two simultaneous dynamics in contemporary India: the development of new urban spaces, and an intensification of Hindu nationalism (Hindutva). Examining the case of Noida (a township adjacent to Delhi), this article suggests that the entrepreneurial mode of urban development [Harvey 2006. Spaces of Global Capitalism. New York: Verso] has restructured local spaces, which in turn may give rise to rival attempts at group making,…
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture
Understanding suicide
Few themes in the social sciences have been so riven by competing Kuhnian paradigms as that of suicide. At the cost of some simplification it can be said that studying suicide sociologically has im
Unraveling Farmer Suicides in India
Aham, Swartham, and Poti
This chapter discusses the transition in familial relations that constitute a part of the context for suicidal behaviours in Anantapur villages. It argues that there are processes of social fragmentation in family and inter-family kinship in a Durkheimian sense. Relationships amongst members of a household, family, and extended kin group are increasingly marked by economic self-interest, egoism, and status-related competition. The transition to i…
Towards a Horticultural Society
India has seen a deceleration in the area and yield growth rates of many food and cash crops since the 1990s. The area and production of horticulture has, however, grown impressively in the post-liberalization period. This paper is a case study of this “restructuring” in a semi-arid village in Andhra Pradesh from a longue durée perspective. It suggests that horticulture has enabled a small class of pioneering Reddy farmers and some Kuruba farmers…
Producing multiple ‘others’
This article examines two simultaneous dynamics in contemporary India: the development of new urban spaces, and an intensification of Hindu nationalism (Hindutva). Examining the case of Noida (a township adjacent to Delhi), this article suggests that the entrepreneurial mode of urban development [Harvey 2006. Spaces of Global Capitalism. New York: Verso] has restructured local spaces, which in turn may give rise to rival attempts at group making,…
Neoliberal city and exclusive communities
This article focuses on a relatively overlooked dimension of urban development in India: the nature of community-making in new urban spaces. Using concepts from sociological and geographical literature on community formation, it examines the relationship between specific forms of urbanisation in contemporary (neo-liberal) India and community-making processes. The study is situated in the city of Noida within the national capital region in norther…
Fragmented marginalities
Analogous to the Euro-American context, Indian cities are usuallyconceptualised as socio-spatial forms where communities at theperipheries of ‘development’ constitute ‘urban margins’. However,such conceptualisations rarely interrogate the varied aspects ofmarginality within those spaces. Drawing from an ethnographywith dispossessed peasantry (in ‘urban villages’) and migrantlabour (in slums/jhuggis) in Noida, a north-Indian city, we unpackthree a…
Accumulation in small-scale horticulture
The House of Kanooru”
In 2008, David Lewis, Dennis Rodgers, and Michael Woolcock, argued that “works of literary fiction” (2008: 199) combine the ‘art of storytelling’ with the significance of human experience. Taking cue from this argument, this essay focuses on The House of Kanooru (1999), a novel about Indian rural social life, and discusses its depiction of subjective experiences. We describe how this portrayal of subjective experiences, associated with family con…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Agrarian society (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works)