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Mayuri is an ethnographer and scholar of religion. Fieldwork in central India anchors her research on race and caste prejudices, non-liberal genealogies of political change, and the politics of ethnographic representation. Her publications study literary and material cultures among Indigenous communities and intervene in debates on decoloniality. Several years of fieldwork and archival research with Gond Adivasi communities have grounded her pedagogy in ethical plurality and multilingual settings. She works in English, Hindi, Marathi, and Gondi.

She also brings strong genre awareness to writing and pedagogy, with a commitment to public scholarship. At Ashoka, she looks forward to supporting writers through language training, archival literacy, and thoughtful experimentation with media beyond the written word. Her work has been recognised by UNESCO-Sahapedia and the Luce-funded Sacred Writes programme. Off campus, she mimics animal calls, collects small-press pamphlets as research artefacts, and undertakes pilgrimages as fieldwork.