Lalitha Muthu is a Commonwealth split-site scholar at King’s College London and a PhD Scholar in Urban Studies at the India Institute of Technology Madras, India.

Her research interests include Housing Resettlement, Land Politics, Legal Pluralism, Gender and Caste, Subaltern Agency and Dalit Politics. Central to her work is the conceptualisation of ‘Power Induced Spaces', through which she examines the experiential politics of agency, learning, and the mobilisation of ‘subalterns’ in Pondicherry. Additionally, she has published critical writings on caste, land and Dalit feminism on online news platforms.

Research

Thesis title: 'Power Induced Spaces: Traversing Subalterns’ Agency through Micro-level Politics in Urban Pondicherry'

PhD supervision

• Principal Supervisor: Dr. Srilata Sircar