Mayur Narendra KUDUPALE
(Research Associate, November 2023-present)
BIOGRAPHY:
Mayur N. Kudupale is a Research Associate for the “ANR ComTer” project at CSH, New Delhi. He has been working at CSH under the supervision of Christophe Guilmoto and Joel Cabalion. He deals with questions of social and regional inequality. His areas of interest include (anti-)caste identity, backwardness, reservation, and the historical debates of the anti-caste movement.
Prior to joining the CSH, he completed an MPhil in Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. His MPhil work focused on the category of ‘backwardness’. He earned an MA in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
He continuously writes on the question of caste and the anti-caste movement, reservation, historical debates on social movements in Maharashtra, and contemporary issues in Marathi and English across different platforms..
Publications:
- Cabalion, Joël, Mayur Kudupale 2025. “Marriage, Caste, and Involuntary Bachelorhood in Vidarbha, Maharashtra.” Contemporary South Asia.
- Telang, Sangharsh, and Mayur Kudupale. 2022. “Situating Democracy in Ambedkar’s Moral Discourse.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit. doi: 10.1177/2455328X221138359.
