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SANJAY KUMAR [CSDS]
[[File:Sanjay kumar1.JPG|thumb|Prof. Sanjay Kumar Director CSDS DELHI

CSDS website :- http://www.csds.in/faculty_sanjay_kumar.htm ]] Sanjay kumar is the Director of CSDS [Center For the study of developing societies,DELHI] which is social science research institute. Sanjay Kumar is Professor and currently the Director at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is also the Co-Director of Lokniti, a Research Programme of the CSDS.

BOOK PUBLISHED
He is written many booked include an edited volume Indian Youth and Electoral Politics: An Emerging Engagement, Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi: From Caste to Class and (with Praveen Rai) Measuring Voting Behaviour in India. His other publications include: (With Christophe Jaffrelot) ''Rise of the Plebeians? The Changing Face of Indian Legislative Assemblies and (with Peter R de Souza and Sandeep Shastri) Indian Youth in a Transforming World: Attitudes and Perceptions''.

CAREER
As an expert in Survey Research, he has directed various National and State level studies conducted by the CSDS, which includes, the National Election Studies, (NES) 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014, various round of bi-annual ‘State of the Nation Survey’ and various State level studies.

While his core area of research is Electoral politics, by using survey method as a research tool, he has also been engaged in survey based studies on Indian Youth, State of Democracy in South Asia, State of Slums of Delhi, State of Indian Farmers and Issues of Electoral Violence.