Md. Sanjeer Alam
Assistant Professor
Centre’s Lokniti Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Pakistan
Biography
Md. Sanjeer Alam is trained in social geography at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where he received his Ph. D. Before joining the CSDS faculty, he worked with the Centre’s Lokniti Programme. Alam works on a variety of themes including socio-spatial inequities in education, social exclusion, affirmative action, and electoral politics (Muslim politics in particular). He has researched and published extensively on these themes in both national and international academic journals. His major work is a book titled Religion, Community, and Education: The Case of Rural Bihar (2012). Recently, he has co-edited with K. C Sivaramakrishnan the volume Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Processes, Outcomes and Implications for Political Representation (2015).
Research Interest
He has researched and published extensively on these themes in both national and international academic journals. His major work is a book titled Religion, Community, and Education: The Case of Rural Bihar (2012). Recently, he has co-edited with K. C Sivaramakrishnan the volume Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Processes, Outcomes and Implications for Political Representation (2015).
Publications
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Contextualising Inter-, Intra-religious and Gendered Literacy and Educational Disparities in Rural Bihar
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Is Relative Size of Minority Population Linked to Underdevelopment?
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On Matching Census Tracts and Electoral Boundaries: The Bottom-up Aggregation Approach
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Social Exclusion of Muslims in India and Deficient Debates about Affirmative Action
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Affirmative Action for Muslims? Arguments, Contentions and Alternatives
