Rate My Professor Avinash Kumar

His research focuses on land, labour and caste; the politics of marginalization and informality; discrimination and exclusion; movements of the marginalized; and the labour market in the Indian political economy. Key publications include the book Criminalisation of Politics: Caste, Land and the State (Rawat, 2015) and co-edited volumes such as Revisiting 1956: B R Ambedkar and States Reorganisation (Orient Blackswan, 2014) and The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal (Orient Blackswan, 2014). Journal articles include “The Battle for Land: Unaddressed Issues” (Economic and Political Weekly, 2011), “Fallacy of the State in Bihar” (Economic and Political Weekly, 2012), and “Mass Media and Muslims in India: Representation or Subversion” (Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2011). He has collaborated internationally on projects such as the Political Economy of Cross-Class Alliances in India with the University of Denver, USA.