#  Leela Khanna 

Raphael Morrison Dorman Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program

PhD, Department of Anthropology, New York University

 

 

 



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Leela Khanna holds a PhD in anthropology from New York University. Her ethnographic research explores youth engagement with Hindu nationalist politics in western India. Her work investigates how identity, inequality, and inclusion are reshaped within right-wing movements.

**Research Interests:** Right-wing movements; nationalism; Hindu majoritarianism; student politics; caste; gender; ideas/practices of inclusion and exclusion; social mobility and higher education; and political anthropology of South Asia.



 

 

 





 

 

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