Prior to joining his current institution, Saikat was a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Goettingen in Germany. He obtained his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin in the USA. He is currently finishing his ethnographic monograph on the connection between various forms of dispossession and the fashioning of a post-industrial labor subjectivity amongst underclass urban youth populations in contemporary India. Saikat’s primary research interests are in anthropology of labor, urban studies and postcolonial theories.