D.Phil. Sociology (Oxford), MSc. Sociology (Oxford)
Social class mobility; Social stratification; Work, Economy, and the Labour market; Education and Work Aspirations; Education: Access and Attainment; Gendered Inequalities; Class and Political Participation; Research Methods: including the application of quantitative and mixed methods.
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Associate Professor, CSSS, JNU (2023-)
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Assistant Professor, CSSS, JNU (2012-2023)
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Associate Fellow at Lokniti, CSDS (2009-11), and Visiting Associate Fellow, CSDS (2011-12)
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Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Department of Sociology (2007-2009)
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Scientific High Level Visiting Fellowship awarded by the French Institute in India (2024) [held at the Laboratoire Printemps, Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines]
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Co-Executive Editor, Comparative Education Studies, a journal of the Comparative Education Society of India
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Principal Investigator for an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded Research Project (2011-2014)
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UPE-II Project Grant from JNU (with colleagues from CSSS and CESP, JNU) (2014-19)
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Grants from the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes´ (BIARI) Alumni Research Initiative (Co-applicant): 2010-11 and 2012-13
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Grants during doctoral research: Nuffield Funded Studentship (Nuffield College, Oxford), Overseas Research Student Award, and a Grant from the Board of Management of the Frere Exhibition for Indian Studies, University of Oxford
Member Research Council of the Social Mobility Network India
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*2024 ‘“If not work, then what?”: Work, Ambition, and Satisfaction Among Young Women in Urban India’ South Asian History and Culture, 15 (2): 264-281 https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2024.2346866
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2024 (with Manisha Priyam and Mona G Mehta) ‘Urban transformations, youth aspirations, and education in India’, South Asian History and Culture, 15 (2): 131-141 https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2024.2338597
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2023 ‘Mapping Class and Political Participation in India from 1996 till 2019’, Studies in Indian Politics, 11(2): 225–257 https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230231206649
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2016 Patterns of Social Mobility and the Role of Education in India, Contemporary South Asia, 24 (3): 285-312 https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2016.1208637
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2014 ‘Caste in Contemporary India: Flexibility and Persistence,’ Annual Review of Sociology, 40: 391-410 (July/August). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043303
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2012 ‘The Caste-Class Association: An Empirical Analysis,’ Asian Survey, 52 (2): 395-422. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2012.52.2.395
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2004 ‘Gendered Inequality in Educational Transitions’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 (35): 3927-3938 (August 28). https://www.jstor.org/stable/4415475
Books:
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2018. Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uneven-odds-9780199480142?lang=en&cc=fi#
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2023 Marginalities and Mobilities among India’s Muslims: Elusive Citizenship (Routledge) (co-edited)
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Section Editor: 2024 Global Handbook of Inequality, eds. Surinder S Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (Springer: Cham.) (editor for the section on Dimensions and Methods),
Select Book Chapters:
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2024 (with Ankur Datta) “Social Mobility and Inequalities”, In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality, Vol 2. Pp. 1177–1194. Springer, Cham. Switzerland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32152-8_9
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2024 (with Ankur Datta) “Vulnerabilities: Perspectives and Themes”, In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality, Vol 1. Pp. 863-880. Springer, Cham. Switzerland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32152-8_3
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2023 ‘Caste and Mobility’, in The Oxford Handbook of Caste, edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet, pp. 595-608 (Oxford University Press: New Delhi).
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2021 ‘Ethnography and Social Mobility: A Review’, in Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, edited by Iversen, Vegard, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen, pp. 247-270 (Oxford University Press: London). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896858.003.0011
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2019 (with Ankur Datta) ‘Caste in Contemporary Hindu Society: Community, Politics and Work’ in Modern Hinduism, edited by Torkel Brekke, pp. 216-243 (Oxford University Press: Oxford). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790839.003.0013
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2017 ‘The City, Education and Social Mobility: Women’s Narratives from Delhi’, pp. 347-368 in the Second International Handbook of Urban Education, edited by Pink, W.T. and G.W. Noblit, Springer International Publishing: Switzerland.
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2015 ‘Monitoring Education Policy in India: A Comparative Study of Chandigarh and Delhi’, in Politics of Welfare: Comparisons Across Indian States, edited by Louise Tillin, Rajeshwari Deshpande and K. K. Kailash, Oxford University Press: New Delhi.
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2010 (with A.F. Heath) ‘Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility,’ in Diversity and Change in Modern India, edited by Anthony F. Heath and Roger Jeffery. Proceedings of the British Academy 159: 129-164: Oxford University Press: Oxford.