(SoHSS) School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Shiv Nadar University is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, research-focused, and student-centric University offering a full range of academic programs at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level. With state-of-the-art infrastructure, the University comprises of academic wings, sophisticated labs, international standard sports facilities, amphitheaters, auditorium, conference rooms and smart classrooms. The University&rsquo;s goal is to become internationally recognized for the quality of its research and creative endeavors and their applicability to improving quality of life, generating new insights and expanding the boundaries of human knowledge creativity. Committed to excellence in teaching, research and service, the University aims to serve the higher education needs of India and the world beyond.

Shiv Nadar University

International Relations and Governance Studies

Our Reality versus Your Reality. Book Review for Felix Padel, Ajay Dandekar, and Jeemol Unni’s Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed Connection in Biblio, January-February 2014 Issue

‘Waste Management in a Himalayan Medium Town: Revisiting Informality, Centralization, and the Indian State’, IRGS Policy Paper Series, November 2021, pp.1-7.

A Childhood in Tibet: Tendöl’s Story by Thérèse Obrecht Hodler. Book Review in Seminar Magazine 745, Bodhgaya: A Layered Past, September 2021, pp. 68-71

Sociology

Weaving Films, Shooting Cotton: The Cinema Making Fabric of Malegaon

Enterprising Women, Supportive Men: Micro Credit Networks in the North-East

No Less than Me: Working on Disability

‘India’s National Security: A Constructivist Account’ in Sumit Ganguly, Nicolas Blarel and Manjeet S.Pardesai ed. The Oxford Handbook of India’s National Security (New Delhi: OUP, 2018), pp.60-76

Introduction’ (with Kanti P.Bajpai) in Kanti P.Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu ed. India, the West, and International Order (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2019), pp.1-50

Doeguling: A Wish-Fulfilling Land. Re-imagining Doeguling Tibetan Settlement Magazine. July 2021

‘The Informal Waste Sector: ‘Surplus’ Labour, Detritus, and the Right to the Post-colonial City’ in Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan (eds.) Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2019), pp.452-476