Shantanu Nevrekar

Shantanu Nevrekar is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Stanford University. His doctoral research is based on an ethnography of cooperative banks and credit societies in the state of Maharashtra in India. Cooperatives are associations based on democracy and collective ownership, and they have become integral to rural and small-town credit markets in India. He explores how cooperatives negotiate caste, occupation, and identity in contemporary India. He is broadly interested in the study of community and economic life in India and seeks to use his insights towards helping strengthen and democratize grassroots initiatives of financial inclusion. Before coming to Stanford, he completed an M.A. in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and an M. Phil. in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.