Debanshu Panwar

Debanshu is a first year PhD (Sociology) student at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, who is planning to work on social mobility and migration in Urban Delhi, NCR. His broad areas of interest are urban sociology, migration, social stratification, and sociology of education.

The Chamar Artisans: Industrialization, Skills and Social Mobility: Book Review

The Chamar Artisans: Industrialization, Skills and Social Mobility 1986 by Satish Kumar Sharma (Author) A brief abstract of the book The Chamars, who are the main subject of the book, have traditionally indulged in works like leather tanning, shoemaking, and dealing with the carcasses of dead animals in the village community, which is related to their hereditary … Read more