Biography
She joined TISS Guwahati in 2011 and is currently teaching at the Centre for Sociology and Social Anthropology and at the Centre for Undergraduate Studies, TISS Guwahati. She has done her PhD research from the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, on the topic 'An Anthropological Study of Religion among the Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir" and was awarded the degree in October 2015. Her study focused on the contemporary debates in the anthropology of religion, particularly the anthropology of Islam and in the context of a pastoral nomadic community. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in three spells across the region of Jammu and Kashmir from 2009-2011 among the Dodhi, Bakarwal and Desi Gujjars.