Currently working as a Professor in the department of sociology at University of Hyderabad. I have published extensively on questions of health inequalities, agrarian relations, caste-class dynamics, forced migration and urban transformation. His most recent publications include Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India (Oxford University Press, 2018 co-edited). I am working at present on wealth accumulation and business elites in India as part of a research project on wealth accumulation and business elites in India, South Africa and Brazil.