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New Delhi Area, India India

Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Studies, TERI University

Education

I see my research as part of the broader objective of social sciences to study the linkages and interactions between cultural variables, especially forms of social stratification, on the one hand and political systems and economic developments on the other hand in the contemporary world. In my MPhil research, I studied the Chinese communities in Calcutta, one of the several transnational migrant communities in India. I conducted an ethnographic analysis of how the Chinese who moved to India in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries for livelihood have over a period of time managed to retain their ethnic identity through both preservation of their native traditions and integration with...