February 2025 - Associate Editor for the Journal Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis (Scopus)
August 2024 – February 2025 – Assistant Professor (Economics), Presidency University, Bengaluru
August 2018 – July 2019 – Research Associate, NIAS-UNDP Program, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
Research Interests
My current research examines agrarian transformations through the lens of agrarian political economy and development economics, engaging with the new agrarian question in developing economies. I explore how state policies, technological advancements, globalization, and agrarian extractivism reshape rural agriculture. These changes manifest in shifts in land use, increasing land ownership concentration, smallholder displacement, and broader implications for rural livelihoods and food security.
In addition to analyzing these structural transformations, my work focuses on the political economy of development, agricultural commercialization, and livelihood sustainability. I investigate the impact of market integration, financialization, and policy reforms on smallholder resilience, inequality, and sustainable development.
Furthermore, I seek to integrate heterodox economic approaches to critically assess dominant paradigms, offering alternative perspectives on agrarian change, rural development, and sustainability.
Awards & Fellowships
2024 – Received financial support from the Land Deal Politics Initiative to participate in and present a paper at the International Land Grabbing Conference, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (March 2024).
2023 – Awarded full financial support from the Indian Council of Social Science Research to participate in and present a paper at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (November 2023).
2023 – Received full financial support from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, India, to participate in and present a paper at the ADRTC Golden Jubilee Conference of ISEC, Bengaluru (January 2023).
