Author: Ajantha Subramanian

Ajantha Subramanian is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her first book Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford University Press, 2009) narrates the use of space as an instrument of power and rights politics on India's southwestern coast. Her current research considers the relationship between meritocracy and democracy in India.

Ajantha Subramanian

Ajantha Subramanian is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at Harvard University. Her first book Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford University Press, 2009) narrates the use of space as an instrument of power and rights politics on India's southwestern coast. Her current research considers the relationship between meritocracy and democracy in India.

Essay One-Shots

On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy

July, 2023 / By Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic […]

Palestine Threads

Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Israel/Palestine Task Force Report

October, 2015 / By Lori Allen and Ajantha Subramanian

On 8 October 2015, Israeli security forces brutally beat and arrested two students of Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university