About the Author

Abhijit Kundu is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. He completed his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His area of specialization is sociological theory: its methods and perspectives.

Kundu has been a guest faculty at Aarhus University, Denmark, as part of a European Union-funded project of Contemporary India Study Centre, Aarhus, Denmark; and has acted as a resource person in the state-level orientation programme on Methodology (Social Sciences), organized by Kerala State Higher Education Council. He has co-authored The Humanities: Methodology and Perspectives (2009) and edited The Social Sciences: Methodology and Perspectives (2009). He has also published widely in national and international journals.