Ajantha Subramanian
Background
dr Subramanian is a professor of anthropology of south Asia studies also she is an author, she is connected with AKSC as a spoke person in their programs.
Ajantha Subramanian
Occupation
• Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University
• Author
Qualification
• Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology from Duke University
• Non-degree certificate - Political Economy from American University
• B.A. Religion from Bryn Mawr College
Social Media Account
About: - Ajantha Subramanian is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies and Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her research interests include political economy, political ecology, colonialism and postcoloniality, space, citizenship, South Asia, and the South Asian diaspora. Her first book Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford University Press, 2009), chronicles the struggles for resource rights by Catholic fishers on India’s southwestern coast, with a focus on how they have used spatial imaginaries and practices to constitute themselves as political subjects. Her second book, The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India (Harvard University Press, 2019), tracks the relationship between meritocracy and democracy in India on order to understand the production of merit as a form of caste property and its implications for democratic transformation. This person is connected with Ambedkar International Center and Ambedkar King Study Circle.