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 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
Jens Lerche is Professor Emeritus in the Development Studies Department, SOAS University of London. He works on caste and racial discrimination and oppression, and agrarian and labour relations in India. He has done extensive fieldwork on Dalit (the ex-untouchable caste groups) class-caste oppression and rural labour relations in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh… Read More »Jens Lerche
Dr. Tanja Herklotz is the deputy professor of Public Law with a Focus on Social Welfare and Education Law at the University of Hildesheim (Germany). Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law at Humboldt-University Berlin and coordinator of two projects comparing law and legal cultures in India… Read More »Tanja Herklotz
Born in Sitapur, a village in a region of Madhya Pradesh with a strong presence of Scheduled Castes and Tribes population, Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, novelist, scholar, short story writer, journalist, and translator, whose worls have been extensively translated in Indian and international languages. Among his best known stories are Peeli Chhatri Waali Ladki and Mohandas, the latter a disturbing tale of a Dalit boy… Read More »Uday Prakash
Urvashi Butalia is an Indian writer and publisher. An activist in the women’s rights movement, she founded India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for women, and currently runs Zubaan Books. She is the author and editor of several books, including Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir (edited, Zed Books 2002) and The Other Side of… Read More »Urvashi Butalia
Subir Sinha is Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Hailing from Bihar in India, his first degree is in History from Delhi University. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and then at Northwestern University, obtaining an MA and a PhD in… Read More »Subir Sinha
Ahonaa Roy is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Social Anthropology and Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and Research Associate at the school of Social Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa. A Social Anthropologist, with MA and DPhil (University of Sussex), she has taught at the Delhi School of Economics, Department of… Read More »Ahonaa Roy
Sandhya is a social anthropologist, whose work specializes in issues of law, hate and social, memory in India and the British South Asian diaspora. Located at the intersection of anthropology, and critical legal studies, her work analyses the potential of hate crime laws to address structural inequalities and respond to culturally and historically specific experiences… Read More »Sandhya Fuchs
Sumathi Ramaswamy is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History and International Comparative Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. She has published extensively on language politics, gender studies, spatial studies and the history of cartography, visual studies and the modern history of art, and more recently, digital humanities and the history of philanthropy. Her recent… Read More »Sumathi Ramaswami