Shalini Panjabi

Region of Interest	South Asia
Primary Country of Residence	India
Title	Ph.D.
Affiliation	Independent Scholar, India
Email	bharatesh@vsnl.com
Mailing Address	122/1, Varthur Road C.V. Raman Nagar Post Bangalore 560093 INDIA
Countries of Specialization	India
Education	Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
Research Interests	My thesis comprised an ethnographic study of a private, primary school along with an analysis of the historical categories therein -- the focus was on the development of institutions. For my future work, I want to move beyond formal schooling and look at other areas of intersection between oral and literate traditions. While I am still in the process of defining my project, my fieldwork will be in western Rajasthan -- an area I have travelled in extensively while assisting my sister, Anjali Panjabi, with research on her earlier and current film project on Mirabai. I had earlier also been regularly interacting with Komal Kothari -- with many discussions on local knowledge-practices of the region.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	ethnography ; school system ; literature ; oral tradition ; oral history ;