Ananya Vajpeyi is a scholar and writer, working at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critical philology. She is completing a book about the modern life of Sanskrit for W.W. Norton. An anthology of her essays about citi...

Awadhendra Sharan works at the intersection of urban and environmental studies. His research aims to develop an understanding of the urban as constituted through socio-ecological processes.

Baidik Bhattacharya trained in English literary studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA and MPhil) and Oxford University (DPhil). He taught in the English departments of Newcastle University (2006-10) and Delhi University (2010-2018) prior to j...

Hilal Ahmed works on political Islam, Indian democracy, and politics of symbols in South Asia. He is the Co-Convenor of the Lokniti programme of the CSDS. His first book Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contesta...

Md. Sanjeer Alam is trained in social geography at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where he received his Ph. D. Before joining the CSDS faculty, he worked with the Centre’s Lokniti Programme. Alam works on a variety of themes...

Prabhat Kumar was trained as a historian at University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Broadly invested in the north Indian cultural history, he works on Hindi print med...

Prathama Banerjee is a historian and a political theorist. Her latest book is Elementary Aspects of the Political: histories from the global south (Duke University Press, 2020) in which she discusses how modern conceptions of political subjectivit...

Priyadarshini Vijaisri is a cultural historian whose interests include histories of caste, tribe and folk traditions. Her doctoral research at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi was on the multiple patterns of sacred prostitution in colonial S...

Rakesh Pandey studied ancient history and philosophy at the University of Allahabad, following it up with a postgraduate degree in modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He did his doctoral work on the making of archaic and clas...

In 2000 Ravi Sundaram co- founded the Sarai programme at the CSDS along with Ravi Vasudevan and the Raqs Media Collective. Sarai grew to become one of India’s best-known experimental and critical research sites on media. Along with colleagues, S...

Ravikant is an intermedia historian, translator and archivist. He is the author of Media ki Bhasha-leela, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2016, a book that drew on his doctoral work ‘Words in Motion Pictures’ from Department of History, Delhi U...

Sanjay Kumar is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. His core area of research is Electoral Politics, but using survey method as research tool he has been engaged in conducting research on very wide range of themes-Indian...

Shivani Kapoor is a political scientist who works on questions of caste, senses and labour from an interdisciplinary perspective. She is interested in understanding how the experience and reproduction of caste is mediated through the senses