Ph. D., Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi ( 1998 )
M. Phil., Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. ( 1993)
M. A., Politics and International Relations, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. ( 1990)
B. A., Philosophy, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, Kerala. ( 1988)
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Critical Globalization Studies, Comparative Political Economy of India and China , labour and Urban Processes in India and China, labour in Production Networks in Automobile ( India ), Labour in Building Production and Construction ( Delhi and Shanghai )
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Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. March 2014 onwards
Fulbright – Nehru Visiting Scholar, South Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, 170 Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. August 2019 – June 2020
Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. June 2003 – March 2014
Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore. January – December 2012
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China, (August – November 2008 )
Visiting Scholar, Institute of South Asian Studies, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (February – July 2008)
Senior Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, June 2002 – June 2003
Fulbright – Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship, 2019-2020
Asia Fellows Award, Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand 2008-2009
Fellow of the Fulbright American Studies Institute, University of Delaware, United States (January - February2005)
Research Project, “ Social Security Reforms and their Implications for Urban Informal Employment in India and China: A Comparative Study” , Funded by Fulbright, the United States - India Educational Foundation, New Delhi. 2019-2020.
International Collaboration with International Labour Organization ( ILO) on the study of Labour in Global Production Networks in India. 2009
“ Labour and State Absenteeism: Intersecting Social Experience of Construction Workers in India and China” in Prasenjit Duara and Elizabeth J Perry (eds.) Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared ( Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Asia Centre, 2018)
“ China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Transnational Development Model?” , Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas e Internacionais (RPPI) ( Brazilian Journal of Public and International Policies), Vol. 6, No.1, July 2021, pp. 03-17.
“Withering Regulations? An Interim Review of Modi Government’s Labour Reforms” Journal of Asian Public Policy (Routledge) Vol.9, Issue 2, 2016. pp170-184
“Contract Labour in Urban Constructions: The Making of New Labour Regime in India and China” China Report ( Special Issue Guest Edited by Prasenjit Duara ) November 2010. No.46. ( 4) pp 431-453
“Cost –Cutting Pressures and Labour Relations in Tamil Nadu’s Automobile Components Supply Chain” in Anne Posthuma and Dev Nathan ( eds.) Labour in Global Production Networks in India ( Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010), 251 –
“ Hunger Fugitives: Covid-19 lockdown and migrant workers exodus from Delhi” , Bulletin 2020, South Asia Program, Cornell University ( Ithaca, New York ) pp9-10
“ The New Turn in China’s Urban Question” in Manoranjan Mohanty (ed.) China at a Turning Point: Perspectives After the 19th Party Congress ( New Delhi: Institute of Chinese Studies, Pentagon Press, 2019) pp205-2014
( Book review ) The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay, by Mark W. Frazier, Cambridge University Press, 2019, The China Quarterly, 240, 1148-1150
(Book review ) International Migrants in China’s Global City: The New Shanghailanders by James Farrer, Routledge, 2019, China Report, Vol 56, No.1 pp.150-153
“ Labour and Industrial Slowdown in Pearl River Delta”, in Jagannath Panda (ed.) China’s Transition Under Xi Jinping : IDSA Year Book ( New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2016) pp 143-153
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