Khando Langri

Field of Interest(s)
Tibet
India
Exile
Archive
Memory
Landscape
Materiality
Infrastructure
Affect
Aesthetics
Poetry
Dispossession
Labour
Disability
Space/Place

My research examines the lives of Tibetan refugees who worked as road construction labourers in northern India in the 1960s and 70s. I am interested in the ways in which these displaced Tibetans negotiated questions of fate, beauty, loss, and return amidst contexts of structural impossibility. I aim to uncover the overlapping histories of (re)construction sedimented in the roads, an endeavour that helps trace how Tibetans came to (and continue to) be bound up in processes of Indian state-making.

Prior to joining Stanford, I completed an MSc in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a BA in Anthropology and Political Science at McGill University. I am also a Pushcart prize-nominated poet and was awarded the first prize in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology's 2022 Ethnographic Poetry Competition.

Khando Langri