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| name = Anand Kumar
| image =
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| birth_place = Varanasi
| education = M.A., M.Phil, PhD
| alma_mater = [[Banaras Hindu University]], [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[University of Chicago]]
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'''Anand Kumar''' is a retired [[professor]] of [[sociology]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], an ex-member of the [[Aam Aadmi Party]], he contested for [[Lok Sabha]] (India's [[lower house]] of parliament) from the [[North East Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency)|North East Delhi parliamentary constituency]] in the [[2014 Indian general election]] but lost to BJP candidate [[Manoj Tiwari (politician)|Manoj Tiwari]].{{Sfn|Kumar|2013|p=11|ps=: Anand Kumar is a retired Professor of Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Ex-founding member of the Aam Aadmi Party.}}<ref>{{citation|title=AAP promises to launch Delhi University East campus|date=31 March 2014|journal=India Today Online|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/aap-to-launch-delhi-university-east-campus/1/352152.html|quote=Anand Kumar, a former academic who is the party's candidate from northeast Delhi, told IANS that the northeast district was a vulnerable area where people "feel betrayed and neglected" due to issues of poor governance.}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=AAP releases manifesto for North East Delhi constituency|journal=The Hindu|date=31 March 2014|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/aap-releases-manifesto-for-north-east-delhi-constituency/article5854891.ece}}</ref>

==Academic career==
Kumar received an MA in Sociology at the [[Banaras Hindu University]] (BHU), [[Varanasi]], 1972; an MPhil. in Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, 1975; and a PhD in Sociologists at the [[University of Chicago]], 1986.<ref name=Kumar-academic-career>{{citation|url=http://www.usief.org.in/2012Indianscholarorientation/support_files/FULBRIGHT-NEHRU-VISITING-LECTURERS/Dr.Anand-Kumar.html |title=Dr. Anand Kumar |publisher=United States-India Educational Foundation |year=2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417142523/http://www.usief.org.in/2012Indianscholarorientation/support_files/FULBRIGHT-NEHRU-VISITING-LECTURERS/Dr.Anand-Kumar.html |archivedate=2015-04-17 }}</ref> He was a lecturer in Sociology at BHU from 1979 to 1989, an Associate Professor of Sociology at JNU from 1990 to 1998, and has been a Professor of Sociology at JNU since 1998.Also taught as India Chair in Germany (Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg), GSP Scholar at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany),<ref name=Kumar-academic-career/> He was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at [[Tufts University]] from January to May 2013.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.cies.org/grantee/anand-kumar|title=Anand Kumar|publisher=Fulbright Scholar Program|year=2013}}</ref> International Faculty at Innsbruck University (Austria), GSP faculty at FLACSO ( Buenos Aires, Argentina), Visiting professor at NEHU (Shillong) and Kashmir University ( Srinagar).

== Political career ==
Kumar was a National Executive Committee member of the [[Aam Aadmi Party]] (AAP).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aamaadmiparty.org/national-executive |title=National Executive |publisher=Aam Aadmi Party |date= |accessdate=2014-03-20}}</ref> He contested on AAP ticket the Indian [[Lok Sabha]] elections of 2014 from the [[North East Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency)|North East Delhi]] parliamentary constituency and came 2nd. Later on he was expelled from AAP for "Anti-Party activities" than finally along with [[Yogendra Yadav]], [[Prashant Bhushan]], Ajit Jha formed a new political organization called Swaraj Abhiyan and currently is a National convenor of [[Swaraj Abhiyan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=53257 |title=AAP declares 3rd list, fields JNU professor Anand Kumar | Millennium Post |publisher=Millenniumpost |date=2014-03-02 |accessdate=2014-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320173036/http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=53257 |archive-date=20 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-newspaper/anand-kumar-is-aaps-man-for-n-e-delhi.html|title=Anand Kumar is AAP's man for North East Delhi|journal=The Pioneer|date = 2 March 2013}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{citation |last=Kumar |first=Anand (editor) |series=Sage Readings in Indian Sociology, Volume 8 |title=Political Sociology of India |url=http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book243514?classification=%22Academic%20Books%22&subject=N00&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1 |publisher=[[Sage Publications]] |year=2014 |isbn=9788132117858}}
* {{citation |last=Kumar |first=Anand |url=http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2013_48/07/A_Constructive_Challenge_to_the_Political_Class.pdf |title=A Constructive Challenge to the Political Class: The Aam Aadmi's Party |volume=XLVIII |issue=7 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=16 February 2013}}
* {{citation |last=Kumar |first=Anand |url=http://www.epw.in/specials/understanding-lohias-political-sociology-intersectionality-caste-class-gender-and-language |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=XLV |issue=40 |title=Understanding Lohia's Political Sociology: Intersectionality of Caste, Class, Gender and Language |date=2 October 2010}}
* {{citation |last=Kumar |first=Anand |title=State and Society in India: A Study of the State's Agenda- Making, 1917-1977 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FPeKAAAAMAAJ |year=1989 |publisher=Radiant Publishers |isbn=978-81-7027-120-8}}
* {{citation |last=Kumar |first=Anand |title=Political Sociology of Peripheral Capitalism: Making of the State's Agenda in Colonial and Post-colonial India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoZZPwAACAAJ |year=1985 |publisher=University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, PhD Thesis}}

== References ==
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