Nikhil Pandhi (he/they; npandhi@princeton.edu) is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. His research is situated at the critical intersections of anti-colonial caste, race, ethnicity and sexuality studies in the Global South, with a specific focus on India. Ideologically rooted in the urgency and vitality of cross-pollinating Dalit-feminist, Black-feminist and BIPOC queer-feminist epistemologies, Nikhil’s dissertation ethnographically chronicles how global ideas about anti-racism, radical humanism and transformative justice get capaciously fertilized, fabulated and translated with(in) everyday geographies and lineages of anti-casteism in northern India. Through long-term fieldwork and interviews with subaltern collectives of Hindi Dalit writers, poets and creatives of the Dalit Lekhak Sangha (Dalit Writers Association) and twenty-four months of participant observations in low-income drug rehabilitation centres, pain management clinics and sexual health facilities with Dalit-Bahujan doctors, public health agents and patients, Nikhil’s research qualitatively maps the affective and aesthetic lifeworlds of embodied inequalities in urban India to critically understand how caste and race “get under the skin”. Nikhil is also an award-winning literary translator from Hindi to English and was recently awarded the inaugural PEN Present’ Award (2022) by English PEN for his translations of the short stories of Hindi Dalit-feminist Anita Bharti. He is also the editor and translator of Love in the Time of Caste, a pathbreaking collection of selected anti-caste ‘love stories’ forthcoming from Zubaan, India’s leading feminist press. His anthropological essays, reviews and book-chapters are published and forthcoming in Anthropology Now, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropological Quarterly, Transforming Anthropology and the Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health.