Ananya Vajpeyi works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critical philology. Her research interests and areas of teaching include the history and politics of caste and other forms of social inequality in India; the li...

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, concerning resource use, the making of waste and pollutio...

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 associated with the Lokniti programme of the CSDS. His first book Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestatio...

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...

Nishikant Kolge taught at the Department of History, Tripura University for more than eight years before joining the Centre in 2018. In his Ph.D. work in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at IIT Madras, he looked at Gandhi and his st...

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 historian engaged in researching the cultural histories of ‘outcastes’. Her doctoral research at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, was on the multiple patterns of sacred prostitution in colonial south Indi...

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 a bilingual historian, writer, and translator. He read, researched, and taught modern Indian and world history in various colleges of Delhi University before joining the Centre’s Sarai programme at its inception in 2000. He is the au...

Sanjay Kumar is Professor and Co-Director of Lokniti, a Research Programme 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 conduc...