Piliavsky, Anastasia

Anastasia Piliavsky is a social anthropologist. She is a Research Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Social Anthropology at Girton College, Cambridge. She holds degrees from Boston University and from Oxford, where she read anthropology as a Rhodes Scholar. She has written about Indian politics, crime and secrecy for Comparative Studies in Society and History, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge Anthropology and other journals. She is also co-Investigator on a collaborative study of democratic cultures and 'muscular' politics in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, funded b...