Dr Dyotana Banerjee has a PhD in Politics from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, and an MSc in International Development from The University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include politics of urban transformations, remaking of city spaces, caste politics, and urban migration in India. Her doctoral dissertation, titled A Caste-Coded City: Mobility and Marginalization in the Space Politics of Ahmedabad, looks at how caste operates as one of the principal axes of urbanisation in post-liberalisation Ahmedabad, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. It is an ethnographic study that focuses on the political and cultural production of two distinct kinds of pre and post-liberalisation neighbourhoods that belong to the Vankar, Rohit and Garoda castes. Dr Banerjee has published her research in international peer-reviewed journals such as Contemporary South Asia, Critical Asian Studies and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. She has also published opinion pieces in The Wire, The Quint and South Asia Journal.

Dr Dyotana Banerjee’s research interests include politics of urban transformations, remaking of city spaces, caste politics, and urban migration in India.

Some of the courses that Dr Dyotana Banerjee has taught in the last three years include Introduction to Politics, Political Thought, Political Economy of India, and Politics and Theories of Urbanisation.