The People of India
New Indian Politics in the 21st Century
Edited with Ravinder Kaur. Penguin Random House India, 2022.
Publisher ↗Edited Collections
Edited Collections
Who Are ‘We’?
Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology
Edited with Liana Chua. Berghahn Books, 2018.
DOI ↗Special Issues
Trial by Fire: Trauma, Vulnerability and the Heroics of Fieldwork
Guest edited with Rachel Douglas-Jones, Catherine Trundle, and Tarapuhi Vaeau. Commoning Ethnography, vol. 3, no. 1, 2020.
Remaking the Public Good: A New Anthropology of Bureaucracy
Guest edited with Laura Bear. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 1, 2015.
Journal Articles
Beastly Tales from the Himalaya: An Anthropology for the Anthropocene
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
Comparative Ethnographies of Crooked Beasts: an uncertain method for the climate crisis
Critical Times, 9 (1–2), 136–155
Beastly Identification in India: The Government of Big Cats in the Anthropocene
American Ethnologist, 48 (2), 167–179
“NRC se Azadi”: Process, Chronology, and a Paper Monster
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 24/25
Introduction: Trauma, Vulnerability and the Heroics of Fieldwork
Commoning Ethnography, 3 (1), 99–116
Emptiness and Beastly Encounters
Cultural Anthropology, Fieldsights
Afterword: The Utopianisation of Bureaucracy
Social Anthropology, 28 (1), 112–120
Telling the Story of the Pandemic
Somatosphere, Covid-19 Forum
A Petition to Kill: Efficacious arzees against big cats in India
Modern Asian Studies, 53 (1), 278–311
Incursion
Society and Space, Forum on Volumetric Sovereignty
The Task of the Climate Translator
Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (31), 77–84
Eating Money: Corruption and its categorical ‘Other’ in the leaky Indian state
Modern Asian Studies, 51 (6), 1796–1817
Predation
Cultural Anthropology, Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen
It’s a Conspiracy Theory and Climate Change: Of Beastly Encounters and Cervine Disappearances in Himalayan India
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 5 (1), 87–111
Introduction: Remaking the Public Good – A New Anthropology of Bureaucracy
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 33 (1), 18–34
The Reign of Terror of the Big Cat: Bureaucracy and the Mediation of Social Time in the Indian Himalaya
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 20 (S1), 148–165
A ‘Remote’ Town in the Indian Himalaya
Modern Asian Studies, 49 (2), 365–392
State Debt and the Rural: Two Historical Moments in India
Anthropology News, 54 (5)
Transparent-Making Documents and the Crisis of Implementation: A Rural Employment Law and Development Bureaucracy in India
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 35 (2), 167–185
Book Chapters
Captive Cats
In Colonial Views of India: Photographs by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey, ed. Mallica Kumbera Landrus. Ashmolean Press.
Climate Translation
In The Next Monsoon, eds. Iftikhar Dadi and Sonal Khullar.
New Indian Politics: An Introduction
With Ravinder Kaur. In The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century. Penguin India.
Sarkar
In The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century. Penguin India, 160–169.
Predation
In Anthropocene Unknown: A Lexicon, eds. Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian. Punctum Books, 343–347.
Introducing the ‘We’ In and Of Anthropology
With Liana Chua. In Who Are ‘We’? Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology, 1–34.
Naturalising the Himalaya-as-Border in Uttarakhand
In Borderlands of Northern South Asia: Non-State Perspectives, ed. David Gellner. Duke University Press, 72–93.
Effecting Development: Bureaucratic Knowledges, Cynicism and the Desire for Development in the Indian Himalaya
In Differentiating Development: Beyond an Anthropology of Critique, eds. S. Venkatesan and T. Yarrow. Berghahn, 193–209.