Work Experience

Associate Professor from 2nd April 2026 in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi.
Shyam Lal College, Delhi University, Professor till 2nd April 2026. Read More

Publications

Sitaram Kumbhar (2015) Poverty, Food Security and Welfare in India, New Delhi: Anmol Publications (ISBN: 978-81-261-6465-3).
Sitaram Kumbhar (2026). Urban Marginality in Post-liberalised India: Urban Mobility Innovations, Rickshaw-walas and Production of Marginality in Delhi. In Sobin George……. Eds. Equitable Everyday Journeys: Inclusive Mobilities for South Asian Cities. Routledge, Delhi (forthcoming 2026).
Sitaram Kumbhar (2025) Governing the tides: State Capacity and Cyclone-Caused Disaster Management in Odisha, India, Indian Journal of Public Administration (Sage), 2025, 71(2), 1-14, (0019-5561). https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561251336299.
Pralay Kanungo and Kumbhar, Sitaram (2021) “Odisha’s Transformation under the Naveen Patnaik Regime: Beleaguered Victim to Robust Warrior”, Economic and Political Weekly, February 20, 2021, Vol. 56, Issue No. 8, pp. 21-25.(0012-9976)
Kumbhar, Sitaram (2016) “Everyday Dalit Experience of Living and the Denials”, Economic and Political Weekly, 27th August, Vol: LI, No. 35, pp. 13-15. (ISSN: 0012-9976). Read More

Revisiting Urban Local Bodies: A Study of Local Participation and Challenges of Urban Governance in India (ICSSR Sponsored Major Research Project, 2024-2025, 1900000 Lakh Rupees).
Sea-born Disaster Risk Reduction, Governance and Management in Odisha: A Comparative Study of Policy and Innovation”, IMPRESS, Project Sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi (IMPRESS/P3585/2018-19/ICSSR). Read More

“The Political Economy of Deprivation and Welfare Promotion in Orissa” Conference on South Asian Development, National University of Singapore, Singapore (NUS) 20-21 July 2014.
“Four Thesis of India’s Rising in the World Transitional Dynamics”, International Conference on India’s Ascendency in Emerging World Transitional Dynamics: New Upsurges, Strategic Challenges and Opportunities, 26-27, October, 2017 organised by Department of Political Science, Shyam Lal College, DU, in collaboration with NMML, New Delhi.
Sitaram Kumbhar (2023) “Regionalisation of Politics and Rise and Fall of Regional Political Parties in indian Democracy”, presented paper in a Two Day International Seminar on “Changing Trends in Political Parties and Party System in India”, organised by Satyawati College, university of Delhi, Delhi; Dr. Ambedkar Chair in social Justice, IIPA, New Delhi and Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi 14-3-2-23 (14-03-2023 to15-03-2023). Read More