Nayanika Mathur

Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford.
She is the author of Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy, and the Developmental State in Himalayan India (2016) and Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene (2021). Educated at the Universities of Delhi and Cambridge, Nayanika is currently interested in
questions of method opened up by the climate crisis and her long-standing research in the Indian Himalayas.