Centre for South Asian Studies

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environmental and Climate Justice at the Department of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (UK). Over the decade, I have ethnographically worked on the longstanding conflict between social movements, Indigenous peoples' struggles and extraction politics in India. Recently, I have also undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in the western Himalayas and conducted a short pilot study and consultation work in Aotearoa New Zealand — exploring countors of river’s rights and community mobilisation.

 

My long-term research and doctoral work on “The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India” was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2023. I have recently edited a volume, “At the crossroads of Rights: Forest Struggles and Human Rights in Postcolonial India”, published by Routledge Press, London.