Tarangini Sriraman

Biography

Tarangini Sriraman's research over the last six years has been invested in the histories of identification documents in the disparate colonial and postcolonial spaces of India. She has looked at debates over the material forms, the legal and cultural aspects of identification documents at various moments like epidemic control in late 19th century India, rationing during the Second World War, compensation for Partition-displaced persons, the resettlement of slum residents post 1990 and the implications of Aadhaar for urban poor subjects. She is currently working on a book project which uses eclectic ethnographic approaches to trace genealogies of identification documents within domains of urban welfare production in contemporary India and Delhi in particular. She was awarded the Charles Wallace Research Grant to undertake archival work in London, a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Centre de Science Humaines, New Delhi and a Visiting Associate Fellowship in the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She has also taught in a couple of colleges affiliated to the University of Delhi and has wide-ranging interests in the fields of urban sociology, colonial historiography, feminist political theory and modern Indian political thought. Academic Qualifications PhD, University of Delhi, Department of Political Science

Research Interest

urban sociology, colonial historiography, feminist political theory and modern Indian political thought.