Ajantha Subramanian is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University, USA. Her first book, Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford University Press, 2009; Yoda Press, 2013), 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), analyses meritocracy as a terrain of caste struggle in India and its implications for democratic transformation.
Twitter: @ajanthasub