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elementor - v3.10.1 - 17-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Associate Professor of Sociology &amp; Anthropology, Ashoka University <\/strong><br \/><strong>Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"p1\">Mekhala Krishnamurthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology &amp; Anthropology at Ashoka University and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). At CPR, Mekhala leads the State Capacity Initiative, a major interdisciplinary research and practice programme committed to addressing the challenges and possibilities of building state capacity in democratic and federal India.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Working in close collaboration with governments and a growing team of policy scholars and researchers, this initiative focuses on institutional design, implementation and administrative capacity of the Indian state; the norms, values and organisational cultures of public bureaucracies and public workers; the particular challenges of regulatory and fiscal capacity; and the complex and changing relations between society, politics and state capacity in India.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Over the last twenty years, Mekhala\u2019s research, policy and professional engagements have involved work across a range of field sites and subjects, including informal women&#8217;s courts, popular justice and dispute resolution, community health workers and public health and nutrition, agriculture and agricultural markets, and land, water and livelihoods. In the process, her work has placed her at the intersections of and in partnerships between academia, public policy, government, grassroots civil society organisations, the private sector and philanthropic foundations.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Mekhala teaches a range of courses on the anthropology of the everyday state and market, political economy, bureaucracy, and citizenship. She also works on strengthening pedagogical innovation and practice in public administration training and capacity building institutions in India. In addition to her academic scholarship, she is a regular contributor in the print and electronic media. Throughout, it is her commitment to long-term fieldwork in local communities and among frontline workers of the Indian state that grounds and sustains her practice. Mekhala is a UCL Global Excellence Scholar. She is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fe1178 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2fe1178\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0a5fe38\" data-id=\"0a5fe38\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b528a11 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b528a11\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Copyrights \u00a9 2022. Transforming Rural India Foundation<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Agenda 2022 About IRC IRC 2021 IRC 2021 Report Media Coverage Speaker Mekhala Krishnamurthy Associate Professor of Sociology &amp; Anthropology, Ashoka University Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Mekhala Krishnamurthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology &amp; Anthropology at Ashoka University and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). 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