Assistant Professo, Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University
Lipika received her doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2016. Her research and teaching interests crisscross political and social anthropology, gender studies, international development, and South Asian studies. Lipika's current book project examines the relationship between counterinsurgency, statemaking, and development in modern India.
Through a combination of ethnographic and historical methods, she studies how counterinsurgency recurs as a primary driver of colonial and postcolonial statemaking in regions associated today with the Maoist insurgency. She focuses, in particular, on the gendered aspects of state-society interactions in counterinsurgency contexts. Parts of this work have been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.Lipika is also conducting research for a new project on women voters and democratic politics in India.
She recently received funding from WhatsApp to examine the role of the messaging service in everyday political conversations in India in the context of India’s social media ecosystem.
May 16, 2021 12:14 pm UTC| Technology
The roll out of WhatsApps new privacy policy, which critics warn will lead to more data sharing with its parent company Facebook, received a blow on May 13 after German regulators temporarily banned the update. The...
India's WhatsApp election: political parties risk undermining democracy with technology
Mar 01, 2019 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology Politics
Indias 2019 national elections are widely anticipated to be the WhatsApp elections. Against a backdrop of rapidly improving internet connectivity and rising smartphone use, the number of people using private messaging...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India