Sraman Sircar
About
Sraman Sircar is a human geographer who researches climate adaptation, urbanization and sustainable development around the world. He's currently a doctoral candidate at LSE in London and has previously worked as a researcher in Hungary and India. He holds a BA (Hons) in History from the Hindu College of the University of Delhi, a MA in Sociology from the Ambedkar University Delhi, and a MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology with a specialisation in Global and Urban Studies from the Central European University.
Within his doctoral research, Sraman is investigating how climate adaptation programmes have been shaping urbanization and development in the Bengal Delta in India. Prior to joining the LSE, he had worked as a business consultant with a heritage tourism start-up in Kolkata called Immersive Trails. He had also been a researcher for the angel investor, incubator and accelerator called Start Up! in Delhi.
Moreover, Sraman was an Oral History Apprentice for the non-profit foundation called The 1947 Partition Archive that has grown out of the Oral History Research Center of UC Berkeley. He had helped set up and briefly managed the South Asia office of the foundation in Delhi in 2016. He had also worked for the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archive in Budapest and the V. V. Giri National Labour Institute under the Ministry of Labour and Employment of the Union Government of India in Delhi.
Provisional thesis title
Building against the Storm: An Infrastructural History and Politics of Climate Change in the Bengal Delta in India
Research interests
- Climate adaptation and mitigation
- Sustainable development goals
- Infrastructure
- Social and public policy
- Urbanization
Conference paper
- "Where the Sacred Flows: Remaking the Inland Waterscapes of the Ganga in the Bengal Delta in India" presented at the 'International Conference on Inland Waterscapes: Nature, Society and Culture in Hydrography' at the University of Udine in Italy, 22-25 May 2024
- "Performing the Divine: Cultural Heritage and the Construction of Religious Identities in a Festival in Delhi" presented at the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, 24 – 27 July 2018.
Publications
- Shalvashvili, Mariam. 2021. Everyday Lives and Multifaceted Oppression of Muslim Women of Georgia, edited by Sraman Sircar. Tbilisi: Social Justice Center and Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU). Read report.
- Sircar, Sraman. 2025. "The Politics of Celebration: Interrogating the Secular Heritage of the Phool Waalon Ki Sair Festival in Delhi." Contemporary South Asia 33 (1): 36-51. Read paper.
Prizes/awards/scholarships/funding
- Associate Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy/Advance HE in December 2024
- Class Teacher Award in May 2024 from the LSE Eden Centre for Education Enhancement
- LSE Postgraduate Travel Grant in April 2024
- LSE Geography and Environment Research Student Conference Grant in April 2024
- LSE PhD Studentship in September 2022
- Central European University Master’s Scholarship in September 2017
- Ambedkar University Delhi Academic Merit Scholarship between 2014 and 2016
- Reserve Bank of India Golden Jubilee Scholarship in 2011 and 2009
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