DHIREN SWAIN

About

Joint PhD candidate and MIPA Scholar at The University of Melbourne and IIT Madras

Employment

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Education

• University of Melbourne Joint PhD
  2024 - 2026
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras PhD (Ongoing)
  2020 - 2026
• University of Hyderabad MA

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Publications (6)

• Negotiating the urban margins: ‘committees’ and in situ slum titling in Odisha’s Basti settlements
  Contemporary South Asia 2026 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2026.2686779
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• The political outsider: Indian democracy and the lineages of populism
  Contemporary South Asia 2026 DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2026.2666711
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• Basti mediators: Building narrative land histories and incremental archives to challenge state categories of land and resist eviction
  Dialectical Anthropology 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s10624-026-09826-x
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• Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation
  Journal of Contemporary Asia 2025 DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2025.2489724
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• Odisha: Data Gaps and Faulty e-KYC Implementation Leave Migrants Struggling for Ration
  2025
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• Looking Beyond 'Odia Ashmita': What Explains BJD's Loss in Odisha?
  2024
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