Research/Dissertation
They are broadly interested in urbanization, the political economy of development, and historical geographies of capitalism and caste. Their current research focuses on the transformations of gold mining frontiers in the Central Schist Belt of Karnataka, India, from 1880 to the present in relation to labour movements, state-formation, colonial rule, and global capitalist restructuring. Their work builds upon critiques of the colonial approach to industrialization in India and specifically centers the relationship between ecological value relations and the production of caste-specific geographies.