Abhishek Bhosale

Abhishek Bhosale is a Doctoral researcher and writer whose work is shaped by over a decade of engagement with caste, land, and everyday political life in western India. He is currently based in London and is pursuing a PhD at SOAS University of London. His doctoral research, titled Land for Emancipation: Development with Dignity and Dalit Land Struggle in India, examines the outcomes of land rights and explores how land becomes a site of dignity, political imagination, Identity reconstruction and resistance for Dalits in India. 

Before entering academia, Abhishek worked extensively as a journalist and columnist, travelling across India to report on agrarian distress, land conflicts, caste boycotts and violence, protest cultures, and the everyday lives of Dalits in India. His writing is informed by long-term field engagement, including extended stays in drought-prone villages and Dalit neighbourhoods, and reflects a strong commitment to bringing marginalised voices into public discourse. His work has appeared in leading Indian media outlets such as The Wire and Daily Divya Marathi, and his Sunday column, Media Mania (2020), is known for its critical commentary on contemporary media.

Abhishek has previously taught journalism and communication as an Assistant Professor at universities in India from 2016 to 2022. His academic training spans journalism, international relations, and development studies, while his most formative learning has emerged from documenting oral histories, following land and water rights movements, and tracing the circulation of Ambedkarite thought across rural, academic, and diasporic spaces.

He is actively involved in anti-caste and media democratisation initiatives and has been featured by The Wire for his work on anti-caste organising within UK universities. At SOAS, he currently serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Development Studies and President of the SOAS Ambedkar Society. These curating events bring Ambedkarite ideas into dialogue with global student movements. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies, serves on the review committee of the bilingual journal Media Messenger, and is part of the consulting editorial team at Indie Journal. 

He is a recipient of the SOAS Research Studentship for his PhD. In the past, he has received fellowships from the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia, and Manoos Pratishthan, Pune, India, in support of his journalistic education.

Caste, Land and Development in India, Anti-Caste Struggles, Development Communication. 

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4570-2685