Research

Anthropology of Global Political Economy, Anthropology of work, anthropology of religion and heritage pilgrimages, and anthropology of charity and Philantropy. I am also interested in Urban Ethnography focussing on Environmental sustainability and governance.

SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2017

Invited speaker and Discussant at workshop entitled Decolonising The Cultural Institution? A Critical Intervention of intimate Discourse of Decolonisation in the Cultural Sphere, SOAS, UK, 15-16th June

Invited to present a paper entitled Redesigning Social Inequality, Modern Infrastructure, and Social Mobility in India at the International Institute of Inequality at the London School of Economics and Political Science at a one day conference supported by British Sociological Association on Design and ‘the Social’: Mapping new Approaches to Inequality, Feb 7.

2016

Presented paper entitled Informal Labourers and Dignified Lives in Central India, P50 at Development Studies Association Conference themed on Politics of Development, 12-14 September, University of Oxford, UK

Presented paper entitled Heritage Tourism and Indian Diaspora: Non-Himalayan Sites of Pilgrimage in India, at the two day international conference named The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, organised by the South Asia Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, 4-6 September

Selected to present paper entitled Work and Moral Economy of the Poor at a conference organised by the Mixed Method in Social Science Research association, University of Durham, 3-5 Aug.

Selected to present paper entitled Gond household autonomy and self-sufficiency in central India, EASA, Panel 141, Moderators: Adam Kuper and Stephen Gudeman, Milan, 19-21 July.

Invited to present paper entitled ‘Native’ Ethnography: Contestations of Gender, Marital Status, Class and Education in Central India at a Fieldwork and Its Fragments conference organised by King’s India Institute Graduate Workshop, 1 July 2016

Selected to present paper entitled Intermediaries, Informal Economy, and Labours of Social Care and Security in Contemporary Rural India at the International Labour Conference, entitled Redefining Labour Roles in a Globalizing India, University of Delhi, 28-30 January.

2015

Selected to present paper entitled 'The Environment: Man-Animal Conflict in India' as part of Environment workshop at the Asia Centre at the University of Sussex, 13 May

Paper presented on Everyday Protests Against State-Led Village Schools by Youth and Child Labourers in India for a panel on Education, Youth, and the Politics of Possibility: Comparative Perspectives in Student Futures, at the Comparative and International Educational Society, Washington DC, USA, 8-13 March

2014 Paper presented entitled Everyday Forms of Social Care and Security of the Gonds in Contemporary Rural India at a conference on Everyday Life in Contemporary India, University of Chennai, India, 17-18 December

2014

Invited to present paper entitled Governing the Academia at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 25-26 June

2014 Presented paper on Hi-Tech Indian Rural State and its Paradoxes for the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA), Edinburgh (Invited), at the Anthropology and Enlightenment themed Conference, 21 June.