Awanish Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6291702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Awanish Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Awanish |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Xavier’s College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5377-3312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The historical evolution of caste and territorial power
Ecological restoration of degraded lands with alternate land use systems improves soil functionality in semiarid tropical India
To test the applicability of alternate land use systems for improving soil functionality in restored ecologies, soils were sampled from 0–15, 15–30 and 30–45 cm deep layers of Leucaena leucocephala (LL), Hardwickia binata (HB), Emblica officinalis (EO), Azadiracta indic a (AI)‐based silviculture systems; Acacia nilotica ‐based silvipasture systems (AN); and natural grassland (NG). These were compared with samples from fallow land (F). They were e…
Land and Caste Relations in North Bihar
This article analyses caste and land ownership in two villages of North Bihar, Katkuian in West Champaran district and Nayanagar in Samastipur district. In both villages, the distribution of land is marked by inequality, and by landlessness among a large section of the population. However, differences in caste structure between the two villages make for distinct differences in socio-economic relations in general in the two villages
Identifying Socio-Economic Classes in Two Villages of Bihar
This article is an exercise in identifying socio-economic classes in two villages of Bihar: Katkuian in West Champaran district and Nayanagar in Samastipur district. These villages were surveyed by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) under its Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI) in 2012. The article briefly reviews the conclusions drawn from other studies of classes in rural Bihar. It finds changes in the means of surplus appropri…
B R Ambedkar on Caste and Land Relations in India
Ambedkar identified the land monopoly of caste Hindus in village society as the material basis of the caste system. The land question for Dalits is concerned with human dignity, with freedom from bondage and caste-based exploitation in village society. Ambedkar was critical of mainstream land reforms discourse for its disregard of the interests of the mass of landless Dalits, and its focus on the creation of peasant proprietors, which, he argued,…
Have RCTs brought back the “Empirical” into Economics
Village India
Agrarian Questions
International Development, Political Economy
Village India
Agrarian Questions
International Development, Political Economy
Have RCTs brought back the “Empirical” into Economics
B R Ambedkar on Caste and Land Relations in India
Ambedkar identified the land monopoly of caste Hindus in village society as the material basis of the caste system. The land question for Dalits is concerned with human dignity, with freedom from bondage and caste-based exploitation in village society. Ambedkar was critical of mainstream land reforms discourse for its disregard of the interests of the mass of landless Dalits, and its focus on the creation of peasant proprietors, which, he argued,…
Ecological restoration of degraded lands with alternate land use systems improves soil functionality in semiarid tropical India
To test the applicability of alternate land use systems for improving soil functionality in restored ecologies, soils were sampled from 0–15, 15–30 and 30–45 cm deep layers of Leucaena leucocephala (LL), Hardwickia binata (HB), Emblica officinalis (EO), Azadiracta indic a (AI)‐based silviculture systems; Acacia nilotica ‐based silvipasture systems (AN); and natural grassland (NG). These were compared with samples from fallow land (F). They were e…
Land and Caste Relations in North Bihar
This article analyses caste and land ownership in two villages of North Bihar, Katkuian in West Champaran district and Nayanagar in Samastipur district. In both villages, the distribution of land is marked by inequality, and by landlessness among a large section of the population. However, differences in caste structure between the two villages make for distinct differences in socio-economic relations in general in the two villages
Identifying Socio-Economic Classes in Two Villages of Bihar
This article is an exercise in identifying socio-economic classes in two villages of Bihar: Katkuian in West Champaran district and Nayanagar in Samastipur district. These villages were surveyed by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) under its Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI) in 2012. The article briefly reviews the conclusions drawn from other studies of classes in rural Bihar. It finds changes in the means of surplus appropri…
The historical evolution of caste and territorial power
Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Caste (3 works) · History (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Agroforestry (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Economics (2 works)