Published Research Papers

• Krishna, Anirudh & Sujeet Kumar (2024). “Social Mobility and Opportunity in India: A Review of the Academic Literature” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LIX, NO 51

• Krishna, Anirudh & Sujeet Kumar (2023). “Why Do Poorer Kids Not Move Ahead Faster?” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVIII, NO 19

• Krishna, Anirudh, Sujeet Kumar, & Emily Rains (2023). “A Range of Informality Across Cities and Slums: Understanding Precarity in Patna’s Slums Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of South Asian Development, DOI: 10.1177/0973174123115570.

• Kumar, Sujeet & A. Malathi (2022). “Law and Governance: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic, in Social Work in Emergencies, Zubair Meenai and Archana Dassi (eds.), London: Bloomsbury.

• Kumar, Sujeet (2020). “Forest Rights Act Enables State Control of Land and Denies Most Adivasis and Forest Dwellers Land Rights.” Economic and Political Weekly, 55, No. 6.

• Kumar, Sujeet (2017). “Urbanization and Slum Dwellers: A Study of NGOs in Delhi’s Slums.” Emerging Challenges of Globalization and Development, Surinder Kumar, and Fahimuddin (eds.), New Delhi: Rawat Publication.

• Kumar, Sujeet (2016). “Public Participation and Role of NGOs: A Study of Delhi’s Slums.” Public Participation in Planning in India, Ashok Kumar, and Poonam Prakash (eds.), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Kumar, Sujeet (2016). “Politics of Funding: Interface of NGOs and CSR Provision in India.” Corporate Social Responsibility: Quest for Socio-Economic Transformation, Ranjit Singh Ghuman, and Rajiv Sharma (eds.), Chandigarh: CRRID.

Book Reviews

• Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai’s Shore, by V. Chitra. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2557093
• Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, Sustainable Mobility, by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria. The India Forum. https://www.theindiaforum.in/book-reviews/pleasures-cycling
• Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University, by Susan Thomas. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2024.2392398
• The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi, by Sanjeev Routray. Journal of South Asian Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/09731741231220442
• Michael Lavalette (ed.), What is the Future of Social Work? in Social Work Education, DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2022.2046803, Feb 2022

• Jim Midgely, 2021, Inequality, Social Problems, and Social Justice in Journal of Social Work, Vol. 22, No 1, pp. 295-297, Oct 2021

• Paul Chatterton, 2018, Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change in Urbanities – Journal of Urban Ethnography, Vol. 9, No 1, pp. 108-110, May 2019

Other Writing/op-ed

• Fix Poor Educational Quality, in Telangana Today, 2023
• Are Indian Kids Getting Enough Opportunities Realise Their Capabilities, (with Prof Anirudh Krishna), in The Wire, 2023

• Why Eradicating Open Defecation Is Not the Same as Setting up New Toilets, in The Wire, 2022

• Migrants and making of society, in Telangana Today, 2022

• Open Bank Accounts, But Also Ensure Regular Transactions and Credit to Protect the Poor, in The Wire, 2022

• As India’s COVID crisis worsens, leaders play the blame game while the poor suffer once again, in The Conversation, 2021

• Mahamari ke sach se ham anjaan ya befikra (Unaware or careless of truth of the epidemic) with Prof Anirudh Krishna, in Hindi Daily – Rajasthan Patrika, 2021   

• Recognize Right of Forest Dwellers, in Telangana Today, 2019

• India: decades of hostility against NGOs have worsened under Narendra Modi, in The Conversation, 2019

• India Promised of 100 Smart Cities, but the poor are sidelined again, in The Conversation, 2018

Reports

• USAID/India Forest-Plus 2.0 Project—Mid-Term Performance Evaluation, 2022
• Building a coordinated response to prevent and reduced gender-based violence in Kishangarh, Ajmer, 2021 & 2025 (Baseline and Endline)
• Baseline Study of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) in slums of Jaipur (Rajasthan), 2020.
• Livelihood Assessment in two districts of Odisha: Jagatsinghpur and Deogarh, 2020.
• Enactment of Forest Rights Act in three districts – Kinnaur, Chamba and Sirmour of Himachal Pradesh, 2019
• Impact Assessment of Local Rights Programs by Action Aid in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh, 2017
• Caste, Discrimination and Exclusion: A Comprehensive Study of 12 Villages in Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh, 2017.