Education

PhD, Department of Social Anthropology, Global Studies, University of Sussex, 2018-2024
PG Diploma Human Rights Law, National Law School India University, Bengaluru, 2013
MPhil in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, 2012
M.A. in Social Work. Specialisation in Women-Centred Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2010
B.A. (Hons) Sociology, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, 2008

Profile

Dyuti is a feminist researcher and teacher with a doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Her doctoral research went beyond the association of state with its institutional apparatus. Building on the anthropological, regional and political scholarship, she developed two new theorisations to towards an anthropology of state and resistance. It interrogates questions of power and resistances of marginalised communities with respect to the Indian state. Her areas of expertise include political anthropology, gender studies, culture studies, anthropology of state and resistance, and decolonial studies. She has published my argument in peer-reviewed journals, blogs and presented it at conferences. The research has been the foundation of her teaching at the University of Sussex.

Research Interests

Nation-state, Decolonial Studies, Caste, Gender, Sexuality, Cultures of Resistance, Sovereignty

Publications

• dyuti a. 2020. ‘Abrogation and Assertion: The Fault-Lines of the Indian Constitution with regards to Kashmir’. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10 (3): 758–66. https://doi.org/10.1086/711895.
• Raminder Kaur and dyuti a. 2020. ‘Reclaiming the Sublime’. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10 (3): 716–25. https://doi.org/10.1086/712220.
• dyuti, a. 2014. ‘Legislating (Lesbian) Sexuality: Colonial Law and Post-Colonial Reality’. Discourse Unit: Centre for Qualitative and Theoretical Research. https://doi.org/https://discourseunit.com/annual-review/11-2014/.
• dyuti, a. 2019. ‘Between “Behanchod” and Article 370 Lies India’s Fragile Masculinity’. Plainspeak. 2019. https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/between-behanchod-and-article-370-lies-indias-fragile-masculinity/.
• dyuti, a. 2018. ‘How My Memory Introduced Me to My Caste’. Plainspeak. 2018. https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/memory-introduced-caste/.