Journal of Indian Anthropological Society
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Delhi
Delhi 110 007
Contact: 9015062967
Chakraverti Mahajan is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Delhi. He completed his Master's and PhD from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Dr Mahajan has been teaching in Delhi for over a decade and was a Charles Wallace Fellow (2021-22) at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. His research has focused on Jammu and Kashmir, engaging a broad range of ethnographic and theoretical issues. These include inter-community relations, the psychosocial dimensions of militarisation, and the anthropology of health. Currently, he is working on a collaborative Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded project on Revisiting the Concept of Women's Body and Birth: A Phenomenological Study of Reproductive Freedom and Healthcare of Muslim Women in Kashmir (2025-2027) and has just completed a collaborative projects social and mental health of youth in borderland Jammu and Kashmir (2021-2023) funded by ICSSR and Women, Infertility and Psychological Well-being funded by the National Commission for Women (2020-2022). Peers and professional bodies have recognised his research on Jammu and Kashmir, and the Indian Sociological Society awarded him the Professor M N Srinivas Memorial Prize (2022).