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Koyna Tomar

Doctoral CandidateEntered 2018

Education

M.Phil. World History, University of Cambridge

B.A. (Hons) History, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi

Research Interests

My dissertation, tentatively titled “Dairy Democracy: Food and Technopolitics in Modern South Asia”, is a social and environmental history of dairy industrialization in colonial and postcolonial India. It addresses critical debates in history and political economy of development, agrarian and enviornmental history, and the history of postcolonial South Asia. 

Selected Publications

Tomar, Koyna. 2020. "Ayurveda in the (Mis)Information Age." Current Anthropology, Fieldsights, June 23.

Affiliations

History of Anthropology Review, Editor

Science Beyond the West Working Group, UPenn