Her research interests include social movements, bureaucracies, the politics of welfare provisioning and democratic deepening.

Her book project examines the effects of rights-based welfare expansion and its effects on local governance and civic action through a comparison between two institutionalized accountability systems in Bihar. She has two other ongoing research strands; a historical project on the role of participatory institutions in policy reform and another on local democratic governance and technology Her work has been published in journals such as Development and Change and World Development.