My research interests include History of Human Rights, Social Movements, and Comparative Constitutionalism.  

Publications

 Upadhyay, A (2019). Taking Liberties: Preliminary Debates on Political Violence in India. In Violence and Democracy (e-book chapter). London: The British Academy. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/knowledge-frontiers-violence-and-democracy.

Upadhyay, A., & Hegde, S. (2018). Back to the Rough Ground of Rights: Pathways for a Historicisation of ‘Civil Liberties’ in India. History and Sociology of South Asia (Sage), 12(1), 1-15.

Upadhyay, A. (2013). Corporeality, Mobility and Class: An Ethnography of Work-Related Experiences in Urban India. In R. Addlakha (Ed.), Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities (pp. 169-197). New York: Routledge.

 Upadhyay, A., & Anand, S. 2013. Block 1: Racialized Body Gendered Bodies and Sexualities: MA Course Material in Women and Gender Studies New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University.

 Policy Documents 

 Upadhyay, Amit [with Ayyagiri Subramaniam et. al]. 2017. Haunted by their Persecuted Pasts: the stateless Rohingyas and the challenges of relocation in urban India: Save the Children and the SPPG TISS Hyderabad

 Upadhyay, Amit [with Ipsita Sapra]. 2017. How Accessible are our Public Spaces for Persons with Disabilities: an access study of Cyberabad: SPPG TISS Hyderabad

 Upadhyay, Amit [with Sathia Chakrapani]. 2016. No Country for Young Women: Rohingya settlements in Hyderabad: Save the Children and the SPPG TISS Hyderabad

 Working Papers

 Upadhyay, A., & Hegde, S. (2017). Always Already Political? ‘Civil Liberties’ in India. Faculty Working Paper Series: School of Public Policy and Governance, TISS Hyderabad, August (01).

Paper Presentations

.       Invited lecture on Research Ethics & Writing Research Proposal by The UGC - Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. Delivered on 01 August 2024.  

·       Invited Lecture on From Civil liberties to Identity Politics: An Introduction to the Shifting Grounds of Rights Activism in India. Delivered on 29 July 2023. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

·       Invited Lecture on Foundational Elements of the Civil Liberties Discourse in Colonial India: 1936 to 1947. Lecture delivered on 30 August 2023. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

·       Invited Lecture on the Constituent Assembly Debates Civil Liberties: 1946 to 1949. Lecture delivered on 02 September 2023. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

·       Invited Lecture on Circling back to Securitization of Rights. Lecture delivered on 07 October 2023. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad

·       Co-organized (with Hugo Drochon) international workshop on “The Irish and the Indian Constitutions in International Comparative Perspective”, sponsored by The British Academy, hosted by the Asia Research Institute (Univ of Nottingham), 13 June 2019. Title of Paper: ‘Arguing about Protest Rights: normativities informing the Indian constitution’.

·       UK – India Early Career Research Collaboration Workshop on ‘Violence & Democracy’, sponsored by The British Academy, hosted by the CSDS New Delhi, 29 – 30 November 2018. Title of Paper: ‘Positing the Limits of Protest: Civil Liberties, Constitutional Democracy, and Violence’.

·       National Seminar on “Regions and the Centre: Emerging Dynamics of Federal India since the 1990s” held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 09 - 11 October 2018.  Title of Paper: ‘Intersecting Critiques of Armed Opposition Groups in the Mandir-Masjid Era: examining the regulative effects of normative arguments’.

·       The South India Regional Workshop in Critical Disability Studies held at University of Hyderabad, 2007.  Title of paper: ‘Barriers to and within Employment for People with Locomotor Disabilities in Urban India’.

·       National Seminar on “Exploring Disability Experience in Social Science Research” held at the Centre for Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 25-26 March 2011. Title of Paper: ‘Discovering Disability and Producing Subjectivites: Some Methodological Concerns’.

Co-PC 2024 ICSSR Research Programme titled A Study on Women, Shivashaktis and Jogtas in Yellamma and Other Shakti Traditions of Telangana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka” under the call for Project Proposals on “History and Sociology of Art, Craft,
Culture and Folk Traditions of the Regions of India 2023-2024. With PC Sowjanya Tamalapakula and Co-PC Shahul Ameen.

Co-PI 2022 Telangana State Council of Science and Technology (TSCOST) research grant on “Survey and Study of ST Community in Telangana State: Mapping of Data and Resources on a Spatial Domain”: Ongoing. With Poulomi Bhattacharya, Srinivas Surisetti, and Karunakar Peda.

Co-PI 2022 World Health Organization research grant on “Implementation Status of Social Protection Laws and Legislation: Addressing Health Risks of Vulnerable Populations in South-East Asia Region: Ongoing. With Khushboo Srivastava and Krithi S, TISS Hyderabad.

Co-PI 2019 British Academy research grant for theme titled “Rights in the Irish and Indian Constitutions: from Dignity to the Rights of Man”. With Hugo Drochon, Univ of Nottingham.

Principal Aggregator 2017 [with Ayyagiri Subramaniam et. al]. Haunted by their Persecuted Pasts: the stateless Rohingyas and the challenges of relocation in urban India: Save the Children and the SPPG TISS Hyderabad

Research Associate 2006 Dr Reddy’s Foundation, Hyderabad (Social Audit Report, 2005-06) with Mrinalini Shastry.

Research Associate 2005 [with Madhusree Sekhar and Regina Birner] "Making Decentralization Work for the Rural Poor: lessons from India", ISEC Bangalore and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, Washington).

Courses Taught

Law, State, and Governance

Foundation Course - Understanding Society

Human Rights, Social Movements, and Development

Social Conflict and Public Policy

Social Conflict, Familiar Margins, and Public Policy

Social Conflict, Unfamiliar Margins, and Public Policy

Civil Society, New Social Movements, and Public Policy

Social Justice & Social Exclusion

Philosophy and Methods of Social Research - 2

Development (BA Course)

Post-Reform Transformation Basket Course (BA Course).

Courses Designed

Designed a Policy Area Concentration for the School of Public Policy & Governance: Social Conflict

Introduction to Social Conflict

Social Conflict, Familiar Margins, & Public Policy

Social Conflict, Unfamiliar Margins, & Public Policy

Human Rights, Social Movements, & Development

Courses Co-designed

Gender, Law & Governance [with Neetha Rani]

Gender, Livelihoods & Governance [with Neetha Rani]

Gender, Livelihoods & Public Policy [with Neetha Rani]