Nikhil Ravipati

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

Nikhil Ravipati is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology. His research is set in the Malwa region of Punjab, India, where his interests span agrarian social movements, neoliberalism, and the politics of caste, class, and gender in rural life. He is particularly interested in how landless agricultural workers and poor peasants build broad-based coalitions to challenge dispossession and authoritarian populism. Nikhil is a 2026 ERI/PS2 Summer Fellow.