Subfields : Indian Politics ; Comparative Politics

Research Interests : Politics of Identity ; Politics of Ethnonationalism ;Ethnic Parties ; Comparative Study of Secular Constitutions ;Anthropology of the State

M.Phil. Courses co-taught at CSSSC :

Institutions and Identities in Contemporary India

Rethinking Political Theory

MA Courses taught/co-taught at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi :

Parties, Elections, and the Political Process in India (Optional)

The Development Process and Politics in India (Optional)

Themes in Indian Political Thought (Compulsory)

Interpreting Modern India (Compulsory)

Politics in India (Compulsory)

2011  :  The Politics of Low Caste Empowerment in North India : Notes on the State-Society Distinction.’Faculty Workshop, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, January 21-22. 

2010 :  Caste and the Public-Private Distinction.’ Navajbhai Ratan Tata Trust Workshop on ‘The Public and the Private : Lives, Institutions, Practices,’ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, October 28-November 3. 

2009 : Caste Violence and Electoral Politics : Uttar Pradesh, Post-1995.’ Navajbhai Ratan Tata Trust Workshop on ‘Violation and Violence,’ Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, November 4-10.

2007 : Ethnic Politics, Material Empowerment and the Ethnic Poor : The Bahujan Samaj Party in India.Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 12-14.

Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2000-2004)

Professional Bodies :

American Political Science Association

Association of Asian Studies

Research Groups/Initiatives :

Ethnicity and Democratic Governance

Interpretation and Methods