Parul Bhandari

Parul Bhandari is a sociologist based at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is Director of Studies (DoS), St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge.

She specialises in the study of contemporary India specifically the fields of gender, family, marriage, intimacies, and class (middle class and elites).

She completed her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and has held guest faculty positions at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Visiting research positions at University of Cambridge and Humboldt University, Berlin.

She has authored 3 books: Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage (Springer, 2020); Money, Culture, Class: Elite Women as Modern Subjects (Routledge, 2019); and Exploring Indian Modernities: Ideas and Practices (Springer, 2018) (co-edited).