Ashwin is a sociologist studying power relations, policing and state development. He has recently submitted his Ph.D. thesis in Sociology at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). His doctoral research is an ethnographic study tracing dominant power relations in the everyday of police stations. He was awarded the UGC-NET JRF and SRF in Sociology. He holds M.A. degrees in Sociology (AUD) as well as English (St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi). Along with his M.A. research on policing, he has spent nearly six years studying policing and state formations in India. He has previously worked as a Research Assistant to Legislators at Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS), New Delhi. His broader research interests include political sociology, sociology of law, governance, political economy, theories of everyday and ethnographic methods.

Journal articles

• Varghese, A. (2022). Police interactions in post-colonial India: how particularistic accountability, legitimacy and tolerated illegality condition everyday policing in Delhi and Kerala. Journal of Organizational Ethnography. 11(2), 162-180. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2020-0057
• Varghese, A. (2021). Combating Capitalism: A Case Study of Left Polity in Kerala. International Critical Thought. 11(2), 303-320. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/21598282.2021.1886593
• Varghese, A., & Rajeev, A. (2021). Legally Sanctioned but Socially Opposed: Experiences of Navigating an Interfaith Marriage. Explorations. 5(2), 265-276. http://app.insoso.org/ISS_journal/Repository/Ashwin_Aishwariya.pdf

Book chapter

• Somani, D., & Varghese, A. (2016). Reconstruction Through Annihilation: Caste and Modern Society. In Kumar. P. A. (Ed.), B.R. Ambedkar and Social Justice: Towards an Egalitarian Social Order (pp. 1-24). New Delhi: Meena Book Publications.

Book Reviews

• Varghese, A. (2021). Review of Santosh K. Singh (Ed.), Remembering India’s Villages, Aakar Books, New Delhi, 2021. Romanian Journal of Indian Studies. (1), 161-164. https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=980055
• Varghese, A. (2019). Book Review: Sanjay Srivastava, Yasmeen Arif, and Janaki Abraham, eds. 2019. Critical Themes in Indian Sociology. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53(3), 441-468. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966719860367

Online Articles

• Varghese, A. (2020). “Pandemic and Displacement of Healthcare to Domestic Care”. Log-In Gender: An Online Portal for Educators, March 18. https://logingender.wiscomp.org/pandemic-and-displacement-of-healthcare-to-domestic-care/
• Varghese, A. (2020). “Gender Demographics in Higher Education”. Log-In Gender: An Online Portal for Educators, January 24. https://logingender.wiscomp.org/gender-demographics-in-higher-education/
• Varghese, A. (2020). “Filling a Time-Use Sheet: A Reflective Exercise in Gender Roles.”. Log-In Gender: An Online Portal for Educators, January 1. https://logingender.wiscomp.org/filling-a-time-use-sheet-a-reflective-exercise-in-gender-roles/
• Varghese, A. (2019). “Objectivity in Research: Foregrounding Gendered Access”. Log-In Gender: An Online Portal for Educators, December 16. https://logingender.wiscomp.org/objectivity-in-research-foregrounding-gendered-access/
• Varghese, A. (2018). “Abolishing the Orderly System: Colonial relic feeds off hierarchies of caste and class within police rank and file.” The Leaflet, September 3. https://theleaflet.in/abolishing-the-orderly-system-colonial-relic-feeds-off-hierarchies-of-caste-and-class-within-police-rank-and-file/