I am an interdisciplinary political economist based at the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia. My research focuses on the uneven dynamics of rural transformation and rural social movements in India under neoliberalism. I examine both rural labour and rural-provincial capital through a relational lens, with a regional focus on Indian Punjab in the post-Green Revolution context. I am also interested in the changing political economy of small towns and the broader non-farm economy, particularly their influence on rural class formation and agrarian change. My work is grounded in extensive field-based research and employs both qualitative and quantitative methods. Theoretically, I draw on the Marxian political economy tradition to engage with long-standing debates on the persistent irresolution of the Agrarian Question(s)—of capital, labour, and politics—in India.

I have experience teaching and tutoring undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the political economy of development, South Asian development, academic skills, and research methods. I am also interested in teaching modules like Migration and Development, Gloablisation and Rural Livelihoods, Rural social movements under late neoliberalism. 

I have a MPhil in Planning and Development from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in India. For my dissertation, I worked on the accumulation pattern among capitalist farmers in the Indian state of Punjab amidst a prolonged agrarian crisis. It was later accepted for publication by the journal Review of Agrarian Studies. Prior to that, I completed my Masters in Economics from University of Hyderabad, India and Bachelors in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. 

My current research interests include Agrarian Political Economy, Poverty and Development, Rural-agrarian capital, labour studies.