Teaching
Courses
Education
- Integrated Master’s in Political Science from the University of Hyderabad
- PhD in Political Science from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
Profile
Dayal has previously taught Political Science and Sociology courses at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (DoHSS), IIT Madras. He has also worked as a Teaching Assistant, as a part of the National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning, at IIT Madras.
His research interests include Indian Politics and Governance, Political Sociology of Religion and Nonreligion, Peace Studies, New Atheism, and State and Civil Society in Postcolonial Kerala. Given his interdisciplinary training in Social Sciences, his PhD research examined the political process of inter-religious peacebuilding in central Kerala, employing ethnographic methods. Currently, he is engaged in collaborative research on the emergence and articulations of new atheism in Kerala (with IIT Madras and the University of Zurich) and on minority representation in liberal democracies (with the Dalhousie University). . He was previously a Commonwealth Split-site PhD fellow at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.