Sumit Kumar
Sumit Kumar
Research Fellow
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1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a.
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2.130B
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  • 5. Social sciences
    • 5.4 Sociology
      • Sociology
Post-colonial Theory, Democracy and Post Structural Social Theories

Sumit Kumar is also a Lecturer/Research Associate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University. He is a Dedicated Researcher and Teacher with interests in the field of Post-Colonialism, Democracy and State, Organizational & Political Sociology, Gandhian Philosophy and Post Structural Social Theories. His doctoral research involved an Epistemologically Disobedient critique of the Colonial Democratic Institutions in India. For the past 6 years he has been teaching Postcolonial theory, Post Structural Social Theories, Organizational Sociology, Gandhian Philosophy and Geopolitics of the Indian Subcontinent to students of Sociology and International Relations at Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE TáTK), Budapest, Hungary.

His most recent publications include; 

Kumar, S. (2025). Decolonising Justice in India: A Solidarity-Based Approach to Post-Colonial Justice. (2025). European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(5), 90-98. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2025.5.5.605

Kumar, S. (2026). Paradox of Institutional Responsibility. European Journal of Law and Political Science, 5(2), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejpolitics.2026.5.2.8173

Kumar, S. (2025). The Rationality of Institutional Structures. International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, 8(6), 332-342. https://doi.org/10.47814/ijssrr.v8i6.2677

Kumar, S. (2022). A New Managerial Approach to the Judiciary in India: Critical Review of the Irrational Bureaucratic Structure and a Call for Change. European Journal of Law and Political Science, 1(1), 27-36. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejpolitics.2022.1.1.10

Kumar, S. (2022). Alternate Democratic Institutions Panchayats of India: Away from the Western Ideas of Democracy. European Journal of Law and Political Science, 1(1), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.24018/ejpolitics.2022.1.1.11

Kumar, S. (2022). Media Bias; Wither Desirable. Academia Letters. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL5381