Pranab Kharel

Pranab Kharel is a sociologist associated with Martin Chautari. His research interests include state, politics, law, media, disciplinary history, intellectual biographies and migration. Kharel’s writings have appeared in the journals Society and Culture in South Asia, Studies in Nepali History and Society, Kathmandu School of Law Review and Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. Kharel is the co-editor of Practices of Sociology in Nepal (2021) and the editor of Reading Nepali Transition 2006-2015 (2022). He was trained at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Tribhuvan University. He also worked as a journalist between 2008 and 2015.