I am an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher working at the intersection of urban studies, critical caste studies, and feminist geography. My completed research projects have covered issues of agrarian change and labour relations, the political economy of development, and the caste and gender politics of smart city infrastructure. I received my doctoral degree in human geography from Lund University, Sweden in 2017. At present my research focuses on documenting subaltern urban histories and mapping the diasporic life of caste. I am interested in building bridges between critical race theory, anti-caste movements, and feminist scholarship. Click here to follow the Confronting Caste seminar and podcast series that I have convened.

Currently I am a Lecturer in India and Global Affairs at the King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Prior to this I was a postdoctoral associate in a UK-India collaborative project called Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures in India’s Smart Urban Age. Previously I have held research positions at King’s College London, Lund University, and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. In 2017 I spent three months as a visiting researcher at Khulna University, Bangladesh. Watch the video below to learn more about my recent work.