Faculty

Prashant Bansode

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune

He is a professor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. His interests are in Sociology and Agrarian Society, Sociology of Marginalized Groups, Sociology of Social Movements. His research is oriented towards understanding the marginality of the Dalits, Adivasis and the depressed classes in general, and on caste conflict, cultural capital and exclusion of… Read More »Prashant Bansode

Nicolas Jaoul

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Nicolas Jaoul is a researcher in anthropology at the CNRS. His ethnographic and micro-historical approach of the Dalit movement reflects on the social and political dynamics of Dalit emancipation in different regional contexts (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, England). His Film “Sangharsh, times of strife”, shot during his phd fieldwork in Uttar Pradesh in the late… Read More »Nicolas Jaoul

Karin Kapadia

University of Oxford

Karin Kapadia is a social anthropologist focused on gender, Dalits and Tamil south India. She has taught at the LSE, SOAS, Sussex and Durham and has been an Associate and a Research Associate/Affiliate at Oxford University from 2005 to 2024, initially in the Development Studies Department, Queen Elizabeth House (2005-2010) and thereafter in the Contemporary… Read More »Karin Kapadia

Anupama Rao

Barnard College NY

Anupama Rao, Professor, History and MESAAS (Columbia) has research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology; social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. She is Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the convenor of the Ambedkar Initiative, which is supported by the Provost’s Office (Barnard), the Deans of… Read More »Anupama Rao

Prem Shankar Jha

Prem Shankar Jha is a journalist, economist and author based in New Delhi, India.  He took a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Delhi university and a Masters of Arts Degree from University of Oxford in philosophy, politics and economics at Magadalen College, Oxford. In 1961, he joined the United Nations where he spent five years… Read More »Prem Shankar Jha

Gyan Prakash

Princeton University

Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University where he directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 2003 to 2008. He was a member of the influential Subaltern Studies Collective until its dissolution in 2006 and has been a recipient of Guggenheim and the National Endowment of Humanities fellowships.… Read More »Gyan Prakash

Ashish Avikunthak

University of Rhode Island

Ashish Avikunthak is an Indian avant-garde filmmaker, archaeologist, and cultural anthropologist. He is the author of “Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2021, that ethnographically interrogates the role of Archaeological Survey of India in the making of the past in contemporary India. It meticulously uncovers the… Read More »Ashish Avikunthak

Dipa Sinha

Dipa Sinha is a Development Economist with about 20 years of experience in teaching, research and policy advocacy. Her areas of expertise include social policy, especially related to public health, food and nutrition, gender and child rights. She has been a full time Academic, teaching at the Ambedkar University Delhi, for about nine years, where… Read More »Dipa Sinha