Mayur Helia

PhD student, Associate Lecturer

Research Overview

My research explores past and present of Caste, Surveillance and Resistance among Dalit sanitation workers in Mumbai. I use oral histories, autobiography, auto-ethnography and more under the wider frame of community research approach. I am a Dalit, fourth generation, ex-sanitation worker from Mumbai; I worked more than 12 years in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. My interest lies in Caste, Hazardous Labour, Surveillance, Resistance, Critical Geography, and other related areas. I am also interested in creative action-based methodologies. I am looking to working and collaborating with scholars and activists from marginalised groups, such as Dalits and Tribals, in South Asia.

  • Human Geography