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Professor Manali Desai received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles and is trained as a comparative historical sociologist. Her work encompasses political parties, political articulation, social movements, state formation, gendered violence, caste, racialized inequalities, social theory, and post-colonial studies. She is currently leading a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council/Global Challenges Research Fund focused on gendered violence and urban transformation in India and South Africa. Manali's book, 'State Formation and Radical Democracy in India, 1860-1990,' offers a historical analysis of the emergence of welfare regimes in India under the governance of social democratic parties since independence. Her research has been published in prominent journals and she has co-edited several books on gender and violence in South Asia. Her ongoing research critically examines caste and racialized inequalities from a comparative perspective and she is involved in various projects theorizing race within the Global South.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, ENG
Teaching and conducting research in the field of sociology, focusing on comparative historical sociology.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.