Amit Basole is a faculty member at the School of Arts and Science, Azim Premji University. Prior to this, he taught at Bucknell University and the University of Massachusetts. His research has been published in the Economic and Political Weekly, World Development, Development and Change, Rethinking Marxism, International Journal of Hindu Studies, and International Review of Applied Economics. He has recently edited a book called Lokavidya Perspectives: A Philosophy of Political Imagination for the Knowledge Age.