Current Research

Labour Supply Chains in the Construction Industry: Circular Migrants, Contracting, and Covid

Principal Investigator (with Prof. Carol Upadhya, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore). The study examines labour supply networks in the construction industry in Bangalore before and after the pandemic. Supported by the Azim Premji Research Foundation, Bangalore.

Agrarian Relations in the Lower Cauvery Delta

In collaboration with the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, Bangalore. I lead the social history arm of the project which seeks to document the Kizhvenmani atrocity in 1968 in Tamil Nadu, and the trajectory of Dalit mobilization in the village in the fifty years following the atrocity. Supported by the Kizhvenmani Foundation and the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad.

State, Society and Sport: A Social History of Female Athletics in Kerala

Principal Investigator. The study seeks to document the social and developmental processes that led to the emergence and consolidation of track and field athletics among women in the state of Kerala in the backdrop of the state's general development experience. Supported by the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of Kerala.

Covid and the South Asian State: A Cross-National and Cross-Regional Comparison

Contributing partner to the study led by Prof. Wilfried Swenden of the University of Edinburgh and funded by the British Academy.

Crisis as Catalyst: Covid-19, Social Citizenship and Political Transformation in India

Contributing partner to the study led by by Prof. Ravi Ahuja, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).