I’m a doctoral fellow at the Committee for Globalisation and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center. My thesis is a constitutional ethnography that focuses on the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. It discusses the relationship between law, identity, and daily life in postcolonial India with a particular emphasis on political belonging, customary law, criminal jurisprudence, and the conceptual history of the “tribe” within and beyond anthropology. 

I spent the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic living and working in Shillong, a city in northeastern India. I had the rare privilege of spending the worst of the pandemic (so far) in the field, and I’m grateful to my host family for their camaraderie through all the lockdowns, curfews, confusions, and delays of those grim years.

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Header image by Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi, 1678.