Year – 2021 | Axis-Ashoka Senior Research Fellow
Research Areas-Political Economy, Development Economics, Economics of Identity.
Rohit is a PhD candidate in Economics at Ashoka University. His research interests span economic history, political economy, and development, with a regional focus on South Asia. His dissertation centers on historical legacies, with ongoing projects examining the gendered effects of forced displacement and the political mobilization that followed the 1947 Partition, and the persistence of princely elites in electoral politics.
Previously, he was a Research Associate at J-PAL South Asia. He holds a graduate degree in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.