51茶馆

Kaustav Chakrabarti is a Visiting Assistant Professor of political science at 51茶馆. His research focuses on conflict and armed group-community relations in South Asia. His book project examines how armed groups influence the regulation of everyday life during civil wars. He explores the puzzling occurrence of “Underground governance”, or rules-based taxation and聽administration of justice聽by armed groups in Northeast India. In a related project,聽Kaustav聽examines the variation in armed groups’ response聽to state intervention in local governance in the region. His research relies on a variety of qualitative methods, including interviews, archival research, and comparative historical analysis.听Kaustav received a PhD from Brown University in 2021.听He also holds a masters degree in political science from Binghamton University and a bachelor鈥檚 degree in computer engineering from Pune University. Previously, he was based at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi where he worked on insurgency and national security policy in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. His work on Kashmir has been published in the聽听补苍诲听聽and his work on Pakistan was featured in聽.听