Operations Research: For Mechanical Branch

Dr. Vivek Kumar, Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Social Systems/School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, was born in a Dalit family in Lucknow. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from the same university where he is teaching. He was a lecturer in the Unit for Sociology of Education, TataInstitute of Social Science, Mumbai for a brief period. He also worked for The Pioneer an English daily and Hindi weekly, Pioneer Saptahik, published from Lucknow and New Delhi simultaneously. Dr. Vivek has contributed number of research papers in the books and Journals. He is author of Dalit Assertion and Bahujan Samaj Party. He attended the International Confernece against Racism held at Durban in South Africa in the year 2001. His major area of specialisation is Social Stratification and Social Movements.