Vivek Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivek Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivek |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1557-263X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 36 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Judges behind a Veil
Judicial independence and accountability are central pillars to a vibrant constitutional democracy. In India, where judicial independence is a fundamental part of the constitutional edifice and vigorously protected, judicial accountability has taken a backseat. Judicial accountability thus demands closer attention, specifically in the absence of other objective criteria to assess the performance of the judges. One such way to achieve this is to e…
Polyphonic Visuality and Feminist Re-Imagination in the Palace of Illusions
This paper examines The Palace of Illusions as a feminist reimagination of the Mahabharata through the lens of polyphonic visuality and performative narrative. It explores how the novel constructs multiple female voices that challenge patriarchal epic traditions and reframe mythic history through embodied experience. Drawing on feminist narratology and performance theory, the study analyzes how voice, memory, and visual imagination function as ac…
The Impact of Deepfake Technology on Legal Systems
Deepfake technology, a rapidly evolving form of artificial intelligence, allows for the creation of hyper-realistic manipulated media. While deepfakes have gained significant attention for their potential in entertainment and satire, their misuse in criminal activities—such as defamation, political manipulation, and the creation of non-consensual explicit content—has raised urgent legal concerns worldwide. This paper explores the multifaceted cha…
South Asia’s Gender Divide
Gender inequality is deeply ingrained in the traditions and practices of South Asian countries, impacting every facet of women’s lives. This article, through the construction of the Gender Disparity Index from 2003 up to 2022, attempts to analyse the development gaps between males and females in health, education and labour market participation dimensions, thus indicating the extent of gender disparities existing in South Asia. The statistical re…
Using Ai to Personalize Creative Learning Paths
The fast development of artificial intelligence has created additional opportunities to create highly adaptive and creativity-based learning environments. The paper proposes an AI-based framework of customizing the creative learning trajectory by means of incorporating cognitive modeling, profiling of the learners, and active content-adaptation. In contrast to conventional, static learning systems, the proposed one examines multimodal learner dat…
Professor Nandu Ram (1949–2025)
‘Rat-eating’, Labour Servitude and Colonial Narratives
The Musahar community in Bihar experienced a series of identity constructions in the last couple of centuries. The lingering impact of the identity constructions is deeply rooted in society as the upper castes stigmatised the entire community in Bihar. The critical engagement with the colonial archives put forward various strands of their identity constructions, such as ‘rat eating’, ‘timid’, ‘semi-Hinduised’, ‘servile caste’ and many more. In th…
Taking Data Limitations into Account
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Pru‐Decorp TM and Pru‐Decorp‐MG
The increasing risk of radiological and nuclear emergencies poses a threat to all nations, including India, with its 22 nuclear reactors across 8 power plants. The Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), has been tasked with developing medical countermeasures like drugs, devices, and therapies to address such emergencies. In collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry und…
[Need of Uniform Civil Code and Its Prospective C]challenges
The debate surrounding the need for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India is as old as the republic itself. This abstract explores the rationale for a UCC and the significant challenges it presents. A UCC is perceived as a means to foster legal uniformity, uphold principles of gender equality, and strengthen secularism in the diverse socio-religious landscape of India. The study also delves into the anticipated roadblocks that may hinder the formul…
Federal Structure of Governance in India
The federal structure of governance in India, as enshrined in the Constitution, represents a unique blend of centralized authority and decentralized administration, tailored to accommodate the country's vast diversity. This paper explores the intricacies of India's federal system, examining its evolution, characteristics, and the challenges it faces in balancing power between the central and state governments. The Indian federal framework is dist…
Social system dynamics and community resilience
This research uses both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to examine the complex factors affecting community resilience in various settings. In this case, the research explores how social cohesion, governance effectiveness, adaptability, community involvement, and the specified difficulties influence resilience results by using the five pillars of resilience as variables. Descriptive and inferential statistics are used to test h…
Cultural impacts on leadership styles
This research article explores the intricate relationship between cultural impacts and leadership styles in social science management. It emphasizes the importance of cultural-informed decision-making, highlighting its role in fostering inclusive managerial choices. The study also delves into how diverse leadership styles enhance team dynamics and collaboration, contributing to an innovative work environment. While recognizing the potential benef…
An investigation of past and future Lulc using multilayer perceptron-Markov chain techniques
Production of rhododendron and marigold waste derived biochar
Asokan inscriptons
Asoka is one of the greatest emperors not only in Indian history but in world history. He was a great conqueror, efficient administrator and successful religious leader. No matter from which point of view his achievements are evaluated, he proves to be absolutely worthy. He had the energy of a Chandra Gupta, the versatility of a Samudra Gupta and the catholicity of an Akbar. He was an appropriate successor for the vast empire that he inherited fr…
How Egalitarian is Indian Sociology
Effect of whole-body massage on growth and neurodevelopment in term healthy newborns
Belief that only fair is beautiful and its impact on teenage girls
Background: Young minds are being driven towards wanting fair skin by the quest of only ‘fair is beautiful’. Adolescent girls who are going through this vulnerable phase of puberty are highly prone to fall prey to this mindset they are being exposed to everyday and may develop body image issues, lack of self-esteem and low confidence. Material and methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 500 adolescent girls in 10 senio…
Sleep and Executive Functioning in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors after Critical Care
Over 50,000 children are hospitalized annually for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and face long-term cognitive morbidity. Over 50% develop sleep/wake disturbances (SWDs) that can affect brain development and healing. We hypothesized SWDs would portend worse executive function outcomes in children aged 3−18 years with TBI 1−3 months after hospital discharge. SWDs were defined using the Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children (t-scores ≥ 60). Outcomes …
UP Elections 2022
On-site monitoring of clinical trials by an Ethics Committee in India
Monitoring of clinical trials is important to ensure adherence to protocol, to safeguard the rights of research participants and to achieve compliance with principles of good clinical practice. Recent regulatory changes in India require Ethics Committees to keep an oversight of ongoing clinical trials including on-site monitoring. In this article, we share the experience of on-site monitoring of clinical trials by the Ethics Committee of a tertia…
A Sociologist, Academician and an Influential Public Intellectual
Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (Hale), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019
BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected sub…
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019
BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which cases current efforts are inadequate. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a standardised and comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of risk factor exposure, relative risk, and attribu…
Ideological Support for the Indian Caste System
This paper extends the social dominance perspective to the Indian context by examining the role of belief in Karma (sanchita) in the justification of the Indian caste system. Using social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and the dual process model (Duckitt, 2001) as guiding theoretical frameworks, we tested four related hypotheses within a sample of 385 Indian university students. In particular we expected that social dominance orientat…
Situating Dalits in Indian Sociology
Gandhiji, after discussing the problems of dalits with Ambedkar, asked Mahadev Desai why Ambedkar told him that he (Ambedkar) did not have a motherland. Desai explained that it was because Ambedkar was an 'untouchable'. Gandhiji was surprised to learn this, and he told Desai that he had thought Ambedkar was a conscientious Brahmin who spoke for the untouchables. Later, in the 1960s, on the policy of reservation, Jawaharlal Nehru argued
Green Colonialism and Forest Policies in South India, 1800-1900
British colonial rule and its impact on the environment of the Indian sub-continent has made for a fascinating historical research subject over the last three decades. While exploitation of forests and the socio-economic impact of the process on tribal and other forest-dependent communities are well documented, the role of scientific discourse in facilitating the hegemonic control of the colonial state over forests had not been adequately treated…
Plant Products in Some Tribal Markets of Central India1
Locating Dalit women in the Indian caste system, media and women's movement
Dalit women in Indian society are triply exploited on the basis of caste, class and gender. In this context after defining the term Dalits sociologically this paper attempts to establish that Dalit women are different from general caste women on the basis of their structural location, occupations they perform and treatment meted out to them by society in general. The paper captures the existing prejudice and contempt against Dalit women which in …
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Plant Products in Some Tribal Markets of Central India1
Situating Dalits in Indian Sociology
Gandhiji, after discussing the problems of dalits with Ambedkar, asked Mahadev Desai why Ambedkar told him that he (Ambedkar) did not have a motherland. Desai explained that it was because Ambedkar was an 'untouchable'. Gandhiji was surprised to learn this, and he told Desai that he had thought Ambedkar was a conscientious Brahmin who spoke for the untouchables. Later, in the 1960s, on the policy of reservation, Jawaharlal Nehru argued
From emissions to dilution
Locating Dalit women in the Indian caste system, media and women's movement
Dalit women in Indian society are triply exploited on the basis of caste, class and gender. In this context after defining the term Dalits sociologically this paper attempts to establish that Dalit women are different from general caste women on the basis of their structural location, occupations they perform and treatment meted out to them by society in general. The paper captures the existing prejudice and contempt against Dalit women which in …
Green Colonialism and Forest Policies in South India, 1800-1900
British colonial rule and its impact on the environment of the Indian sub-continent has made for a fascinating historical research subject over the last three decades. While exploitation of forests and the socio-economic impact of the process on tribal and other forest-dependent communities are well documented, the role of scientific discourse in facilitating the hegemonic control of the colonial state over forests had not been adequately treated…
Community Forest Management in Colonial and Postcolonial South India
In the past two decades, South Asia has undergone robust reforms in the forestry sector which claim to be initiating a transformation from state-centric to people-centric forest management. This shift is perceived as an important move towards decolonisation in governance processes in India. Examining the forest policies in colonial and postcolonial South India, this article finds, however, that community forest management in postcolonial India re…
Ideological Support for the Indian Caste System
This paper extends the social dominance perspective to the Indian context by examining the role of belief in Karma (sanchita) in the justification of the Indian caste system. Using social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) and the dual process model (Duckitt, 2001) as guiding theoretical frameworks, we tested four related hypotheses within a sample of 385 Indian university students. In particular we expected that social dominance orientat…
In vitro and In vivo antimycobacterial, hepatoprotective and immunomodulatory activity of Euclea natalensis and its mode of action
Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017
Importance Cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now widely recognized as a threat to global development. The latest United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs reaffirmed this observation and also highlighted the slow progress in meeting the 2011 Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases and the third Sustainable Development Goal. Lack of situational analyses, priority setting, and budgeting hav…
Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (Hale), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019
BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected sub…
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019
BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which cases current efforts are inadequate. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a standardised and comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of risk factor exposure, relative risk, and attribu…
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019
BACKGROUND: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive…
On-site monitoring of clinical trials by an Ethics Committee in India
Monitoring of clinical trials is important to ensure adherence to protocol, to safeguard the rights of research participants and to achieve compliance with principles of good clinical practice. Recent regulatory changes in India require Ethics Committees to keep an oversight of ongoing clinical trials including on-site monitoring. In this article, we share the experience of on-site monitoring of clinical trials by the Ethics Committee of a tertia…
A Sociologist, Academician and an Influential Public Intellectual
Asokan inscriptons
Asoka is one of the greatest emperors not only in Indian history but in world history. He was a great conqueror, efficient administrator and successful religious leader. No matter from which point of view his achievements are evaluated, he proves to be absolutely worthy. He had the energy of a Chandra Gupta, the versatility of a Samudra Gupta and the catholicity of an Akbar. He was an appropriate successor for the vast empire that he inherited fr…
How Egalitarian is Indian Sociology
Effect of whole-body massage on growth and neurodevelopment in term healthy newborns
Belief that only fair is beautiful and its impact on teenage girls
Background: Young minds are being driven towards wanting fair skin by the quest of only ‘fair is beautiful’. Adolescent girls who are going through this vulnerable phase of puberty are highly prone to fall prey to this mindset they are being exposed to everyday and may develop body image issues, lack of self-esteem and low confidence. Material and methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 500 adolescent girls in 10 senio…
Sleep and Executive Functioning in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors after Critical Care
Over 50,000 children are hospitalized annually for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and face long-term cognitive morbidity. Over 50% develop sleep/wake disturbances (SWDs) that can affect brain development and healing. We hypothesized SWDs would portend worse executive function outcomes in children aged 3−18 years with TBI 1−3 months after hospital discharge. SWDs were defined using the Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children (t-scores ≥ 60). Outcomes …
UP Elections 2022
[Need of Uniform Civil Code and Its Prospective C]challenges
The debate surrounding the need for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India is as old as the republic itself. This abstract explores the rationale for a UCC and the significant challenges it presents. A UCC is perceived as a means to foster legal uniformity, uphold principles of gender equality, and strengthen secularism in the diverse socio-religious landscape of India. The study also delves into the anticipated roadblocks that may hinder the formul…
Federal Structure of Governance in India
The federal structure of governance in India, as enshrined in the Constitution, represents a unique blend of centralized authority and decentralized administration, tailored to accommodate the country's vast diversity. This paper explores the intricacies of India's federal system, examining its evolution, characteristics, and the challenges it faces in balancing power between the central and state governments. The Indian federal framework is dist…
Social system dynamics and community resilience
This research uses both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to examine the complex factors affecting community resilience in various settings. In this case, the research explores how social cohesion, governance effectiveness, adaptability, community involvement, and the specified difficulties influence resilience results by using the five pillars of resilience as variables. Descriptive and inferential statistics are used to test h…
Cultural impacts on leadership styles
This research article explores the intricate relationship between cultural impacts and leadership styles in social science management. It emphasizes the importance of cultural-informed decision-making, highlighting its role in fostering inclusive managerial choices. The study also delves into how diverse leadership styles enhance team dynamics and collaboration, contributing to an innovative work environment. While recognizing the potential benef…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works)