Dhiraj Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dhiraj Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dhiraj |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Technology Rourkela |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6899-4919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Real-time human–computer interface based on eye gaze estimation from low-quality webcam images: Integration of Convolutional Neural Networks, Calibration, and Transfer Learning
Eye gaze estimation represents a well-established research domain within computer vision. It has a wide range of practical applications in numerous fields, including human–computer interaction (HCI) for cursor control, health care, and virtual reality, enhancing its suitability for adoption throughout the scientific community. Different methods have been used for eye gaze estimation, such as model based, feature based, and appearance based. The a…
Changes in the magnitude and frequency of Holocene monsoon floods on the Mahi River, western India with special reference to Anthropocene
Role of Political and Civil Society in Kalinga Nagar Resistance Movement in Odisha, India
The presence of neoliberal developmentalism is insidious and ubiquitous, and it has naturalized displacement. Odisha, a resource-rich state, has also experienced developmental discontent in the form of displacement, everyday tyranny, resistance, and dispossession. Displacement causes widespread multiple discontent among the local affected people, and it is being resisted in local place-based struggles in Odisha. These kinds of local place-based s…
Long‐term impact of inorganic fertilizers and farmyard manure on soil quality and productivity in subtropical Vertisols under a soybean‐wheat cropping system
The quality of soil plays a crucial role in sustainable agriculture. To better understand the changes in soil quality across different agroecosystems, long‐term experiments are considered as the most effective approach. Moreover in spite of their significance, there is paucity of information pertaining to long‐term impact of fertilizer and manure application on soil quality in Vertisols of Central India. Thus, the present study aimed to assess th…
Developing Standard Treatment Workflows—way to universal healthcare in India
Primary healthcare caters to nearly 70% of the population in India and provides treatment for approximately 80–90% of common conditions. To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), the Indian healthcare system is gearing up by initiating several schemes such as National Health Protection Scheme, Ayushman Bharat, Nutrition Supplementation Schemes, and Inderdhanush Schemes. The healthcare delivery system is facing challenges such as irrational use …
Gender Matters: Reappraising the Issues of Equity, Participation and Ownership in Watershed Management
Equal share in governance of managing natural resources is one of the strategic aspects of neoliberal developmentalism. Additionally, this process of natural resource governance (NRG) considers communities as a homogeneous entity by ignoring the cultural politics of gender division to maintain the latency and equilibrium of the existing gendered order and regime. Watershed developmental project is no exceptional in this regard. The existing empir…
Natural Resources Matters: Capitalism and People’s Resistance Against Developmentalism in Adivasi Region of India
Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based struggles in India. It has intensified capital accumulation, enforcing the vast majority of population, particularly the Adivasis (tribal people) in resource-rich territories, to displace and has affected their livelihoods by accumulating their cultural rights to land, water, and forests. The prerequisite capitalist logic of investment-induced disposse…
Examining Ethnicity: The Context of Mizos in Bengaluru
The continued salience of ethnic consciousness even in an urban setting evokes keen interest among the scholars. Why is that despite being located in an apparently urban context, ethnic identity continues to be dominant is the question that has not been adequately theorised. This article seeks to engage with this question. The excessive dependence on the primordialist or instrumentalist approach to explain the salience of ethnicity has increasing…
A Critique of Development in India’s Predominantly Adivasi Regions with Special Reference to the Hos of India’s Jharkhand
This article seeks to look at the idea of development interventions (DI) in predominantly Adivasi regions that focus on the extraction of abundant forest and mineral wealth to benefit regions beyond Adivasi territories. While this process deprives Adivasis of their subsistence needs, it invokes resistance and resultant conflicts. Such interventions and consequent conflict need sociological elaboration. Hence, using two case studies, we explicate …
Observing Developmental Intervention in Mineral-rich Adivasi Subsistence Economy: An Ethnographic Account from West Singhbhum (Jharkhand)
The shift of the political economy of development from the Nehruvian model to the Neoliberal market model has relocated the discourses and practices of development. A state becomes a facilitator, protector and advocator of the capitalist market economy and the praxis of development become a kind of governmentality that often privileges the specific class interest. In this neoliberalized era, cultural politics of the developmental intervention (DI…
Neoliberal Development, Sustainability and the Production of Fictitious Commodity: Some Cases from the Adivasi Region in India
Dalit Children Dropout in Schools: Need for Inclusive Curriculum
Dalit children are generally marginal with respect to students of other categories, and their dropout rate is an alarming situation in India. Scholars, social scientists and educationists have tried to understand the reasons of student disengagement from the school system and have revealed various causes and given many varied suggestions that are related to a child’s family background and socio-cultural background. Although several attempts have …
Women Empowerment in Sericulture: A Current Scenario in Rural India
Engaging with Modernity: Need for a Critical Negotiation
Modernity has emerged as a dominant category in social science literature. An attempt is made in this paper to make sense of what modernity is and elaborate and interrogate different forms of engagement one could pursue with it One could approach modernity in three different, though not contradictory, ways. Similarly, it is possible to think of three distinct forms of engagement which one can pursue with modernity. The case for one form of engage…
Observing Developmental Intervention in Mineral-rich Adivasi Subsistence Economy: An Ethnographic Account from West Singhbhum (Jharkhand)
The shift of the political economy of development from the Nehruvian model to the Neoliberal market model has relocated the discourses and practices of development. A state becomes a facilitator, protector and advocator of the capitalist market economy and the praxis of development become a kind of governmentality that often privileges the specific class interest. In this neoliberalized era, cultural politics of the developmental intervention (DI…
Natural Resources Matters: Capitalism and People’s Resistance Against Developmentalism in Adivasi Region of India
Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based struggles in India. It has intensified capital accumulation, enforcing the vast majority of population, particularly the Adivasis (tribal people) in resource-rich territories, to displace and has affected their livelihoods by accumulating their cultural rights to land, water, and forests. The prerequisite capitalist logic of investment-induced disposse…
A Critique of Development in India’s Predominantly Adivasi Regions with Special Reference to the Hos of India’s Jharkhand
This article seeks to look at the idea of development interventions (DI) in predominantly Adivasi regions that focus on the extraction of abundant forest and mineral wealth to benefit regions beyond Adivasi territories. While this process deprives Adivasis of their subsistence needs, it invokes resistance and resultant conflicts. Such interventions and consequent conflict need sociological elaboration. Hence, using two case studies, we explicate …
Changes in the magnitude and frequency of Holocene monsoon floods on the Mahi River, western India with special reference to Anthropocene
Examining Ethnicity: The Context of Mizos in Bengaluru
The continued salience of ethnic consciousness even in an urban setting evokes keen interest among the scholars. Why is that despite being located in an apparently urban context, ethnic identity continues to be dominant is the question that has not been adequately theorised. This article seeks to engage with this question. The excessive dependence on the primordialist or instrumentalist approach to explain the salience of ethnicity has increasing…
Engaging with Modernity: Need for a Critical Negotiation
Modernity has emerged as a dominant category in social science literature. An attempt is made in this paper to make sense of what modernity is and elaborate and interrogate different forms of engagement one could pursue with it One could approach modernity in three different, though not contradictory, ways. Similarly, it is possible to think of three distinct forms of engagement which one can pursue with modernity. The case for one form of engage…
Women Empowerment in Sericulture: A Current Scenario in Rural India
Dalit Children Dropout in Schools: Need for Inclusive Curriculum
Dalit children are generally marginal with respect to students of other categories, and their dropout rate is an alarming situation in India. Scholars, social scientists and educationists have tried to understand the reasons of student disengagement from the school system and have revealed various causes and given many varied suggestions that are related to a child’s family background and socio-cultural background. Although several attempts have …
Observing Developmental Intervention in Mineral-rich Adivasi Subsistence Economy: An Ethnographic Account from West Singhbhum (Jharkhand)
The shift of the political economy of development from the Nehruvian model to the Neoliberal market model has relocated the discourses and practices of development. A state becomes a facilitator, protector and advocator of the capitalist market economy and the praxis of development become a kind of governmentality that often privileges the specific class interest. In this neoliberalized era, cultural politics of the developmental intervention (DI…
Neoliberal Development, Sustainability and the Production of Fictitious Commodity: Some Cases from the Adivasi Region in India
Examining Ethnicity: The Context of Mizos in Bengaluru
The continued salience of ethnic consciousness even in an urban setting evokes keen interest among the scholars. Why is that despite being located in an apparently urban context, ethnic identity continues to be dominant is the question that has not been adequately theorised. This article seeks to engage with this question. The excessive dependence on the primordialist or instrumentalist approach to explain the salience of ethnicity has increasing…
A Critique of Development in India’s Predominantly Adivasi Regions with Special Reference to the Hos of India’s Jharkhand
This article seeks to look at the idea of development interventions (DI) in predominantly Adivasi regions that focus on the extraction of abundant forest and mineral wealth to benefit regions beyond Adivasi territories. While this process deprives Adivasis of their subsistence needs, it invokes resistance and resultant conflicts. Such interventions and consequent conflict need sociological elaboration. Hence, using two case studies, we explicate …
Natural Resources Matters: Capitalism and People’s Resistance Against Developmentalism in Adivasi Region of India
Capitalist development and its fallout dispossession have been contested in various place-based struggles in India. It has intensified capital accumulation, enforcing the vast majority of population, particularly the Adivasis (tribal people) in resource-rich territories, to displace and has affected their livelihoods by accumulating their cultural rights to land, water, and forests. The prerequisite capitalist logic of investment-induced disposse…
Gender Matters: Reappraising the Issues of Equity, Participation and Ownership in Watershed Management
Equal share in governance of managing natural resources is one of the strategic aspects of neoliberal developmentalism. Additionally, this process of natural resource governance (NRG) considers communities as a homogeneous entity by ignoring the cultural politics of gender division to maintain the latency and equilibrium of the existing gendered order and regime. Watershed developmental project is no exceptional in this regard. The existing empir…
Developing Standard Treatment Workflows—way to universal healthcare in India
Primary healthcare caters to nearly 70% of the population in India and provides treatment for approximately 80–90% of common conditions. To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), the Indian healthcare system is gearing up by initiating several schemes such as National Health Protection Scheme, Ayushman Bharat, Nutrition Supplementation Schemes, and Inderdhanush Schemes. The healthcare delivery system is facing challenges such as irrational use …
Long‐term impact of inorganic fertilizers and farmyard manure on soil quality and productivity in subtropical Vertisols under a soybean‐wheat cropping system
The quality of soil plays a crucial role in sustainable agriculture. To better understand the changes in soil quality across different agroecosystems, long‐term experiments are considered as the most effective approach. Moreover in spite of their significance, there is paucity of information pertaining to long‐term impact of fertilizer and manure application on soil quality in Vertisols of Central India. Thus, the present study aimed to assess th…
Real-time human–computer interface based on eye gaze estimation from low-quality webcam images: Integration of Convolutional Neural Networks, Calibration, and Transfer Learning
Eye gaze estimation represents a well-established research domain within computer vision. It has a wide range of practical applications in numerous fields, including human–computer interaction (HCI) for cursor control, health care, and virtual reality, enhancing its suitability for adoption throughout the scientific community. Different methods have been used for eye gaze estimation, such as model based, feature based, and appearance based. The a…
Changes in the magnitude and frequency of Holocene monsoon floods on the Mahi River, western India with special reference to Anthropocene
Role of Political and Civil Society in Kalinga Nagar Resistance Movement in Odisha, India
The presence of neoliberal developmentalism is insidious and ubiquitous, and it has naturalized displacement. Odisha, a resource-rich state, has also experienced developmental discontent in the form of displacement, everyday tyranny, resistance, and dispossession. Displacement causes widespread multiple discontent among the local affected people, and it is being resisted in local place-based struggles in Odisha. These kinds of local place-based s…
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