Mr Krishan Takhar

August 2018 - April 2019; Faculty of Sociology; Biyani Girls College, Jaipur
August 2017 - May 2018; Research Consultant; Budget Analysis Research Centre (BARC), Rajasthan
2018; Research Assistant; Professor Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Instituteof Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai
May 2018 - September 2018; Researcher; Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Jaipur
August 2013 - March 2014; Faculty; Subodh Law College, Jaipur
August 2013 - December 2013; Faculty; Department of Social Work, University of Rajasthan
2013; Research Associate; Centre for Dalit Rights, Jaipur

Sociology of post-liberalisation industrial spaces, the industrial corridors and zones; Governance and informal governance processes in industrial spaces; Informality and placemaking activities; Caste; Sociology of small towns; Gender; Critiques of Western universalism via Postcolonial, Decolonial and World Anthropologies; Political sociology of Rajasthan

JOURNALS

The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism: Inventraset Assemblages: Kim Dovey and Redento B. Recio. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1–3, (2025).
The production of domestic space and gender during the COVID-19 Crisis: An autoethnographic account from a North Indian small town - K. Takhar & P. Kumari - Journal of Underrepresented and Minority Progress, Morgan State University, USA, (2025)
Master Plans and Encroachments: The architecture of informality in Islamabad: by Faiza Moatasim, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023, xiii+248 pp., $ 75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-5128-2520-6. Contemporary South Asia, Taylor & Francis, 33(1), 146–147, (2025)
A Step Towards Dalit–Bahujan Unity? Reading the Alliance Between ‘Jat Party’ and ‘Dalit Party’ in Rajasthan, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, SAGE, (2024)
Locating the ‘Local’ in the Diversity and Development Debate: Analysing Evidence from the Field,” Journal of Development Policy and Practice, SAGE, (2023)