Sanjay Srivastava
University of London [SOAS]
Sanjay Srivastava is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS University of London. His key publications include Constructing Post-colonial India: National Character and the Doon School (1998); Passionate Modernity, Sexuality, Class and Consumption in India (2007); Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (OUP, 2015); and Masculinity Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City. Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home (2022). His research interests centre around consumerism, urban cultures and ethnographies of the state. Before coming to SOAS, he worked at a research institute at the University of Delhi. He is working on a manuscript entitled ‘Satellite maps and Ancestor Spirits. Rural Land Markets, Technology and New Urban Formations in India’
