Ongoing Projects

Understanding Indian Economy:

• The Biopolitics of Data in India: Does Data Create Society or Merely Measure it?
• Visible and Invisible Hands: How the State Created Markets in Early-Neoliberal India
• Estimating Economic Costs of Terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir
• Debt in Contemporary India
• Understanding Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES 2022-23)
• Labour Market Inequalities – Undercurrents Beneath the Overall Trends
• How Do inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Evidence from India
• How Does Caste and Gender Affect Labour Force Participation in Contemporary India?

Politics, Society & History:

• Pasmanda Politics in India: Beyond the Quest for Representation?
• Colonial Penal Regime and Surveillance of Women’s Sexuality
•  Frontiers as Theatres of ‘Small Wars’ in 19th Century Colonial India
• Chhath & Subalternity: Dismantling Hegemonies?

• Veil & the Ruling Elite: Affective Politics, Sartorial Choices, and the Misreading of Muslim Women

• “Anger”: Political Emotions, Feeling Publics and the Global Rise of Conservative Politics
• The Personal is Political: Reproduction, Politics & Justice in India
• Fiscal Decentralization and Voter Turnout in National and State-Level Elections across Socially Fragmented India

Transitional Spaces, Culture & Media Studies:

• Young India on Social Media
• Online Misogyny & Victimization of Female Opinion
• Building China in Eight Decades of Bollywood
• Unveiling Public Morality in the Social Constructionism of the Hijab Controversy

Justice, Urban Systems & Technology:

• Human Development Index (HDI) for Cities
• Exploring the Significance of Spaces for Urban Underprivileged Children

• Sidestepping Aarogya Setu: Exploring Non-Adoption in India’s Covid-19 Tech Landscape

• Delhi Evictions: Reshaping Space, Displacing Lives
• Claiming Care, Claiming Equality

Geopolitics & Strategies:

• China Taiwan Relations under CCP and DPP
• Unravelling China’s Mineral Hegemony: Implications for Global Energy Security and Strategic Operations
• Leveraging Brisbane Port’s Success for Kolkata Port’s Sustainability
• Building China in eight decades of Bollywood