Kanthi Swaroop • Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay

Kanthi Swaroop

Urban Policy

Working Title

Restructuring Urban Sewage Work: A Study of Policy Change and Caste in Hyderabad

Supervisor(s)

D. Parthasarathy

Satish B. Agnihotri

Research Interests

Urbanisation and Urban GovernancePolicy ProcessSanitation BureaucracyCasteHyderabad

Education

MTech Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, 2017

Publications

Manual Scavenging in India: The Banality of An Everyday Crime

Shankar, S. & Swaroop, K. · 2021 · CASTE A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 67-76

Caste and COVID 19: Notes on Sanitation in a Pandemic

Swaroop, K. & Lee, J. · 2021 · Economic Political and Weekly, Vol. 56, No. 13, pp. 35-41

Book Review: Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

Swaroop, K. · 2025 · Economic Political and Weekly, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 26-28

Book Review: Philippe Cullet, Sujith Koonan and Lovleen Bhullar (Eds), The Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives

Swaroop, K. · 2023 · South Asia Research, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 292-295

Book Review: Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey, Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India

Swaroop, K. · 2020 · Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 46, No. 13, pp. 182-183