Dr Adhikari is a research fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (ISCA), and the Co-Investigator on the ‘The Dalit Search for Dignity: State, Society, and Mobilization from Below in Far West Nepal’ funded by the British Academy (BA) through its Heritage, Dignity and Violence Programme (GCRF) (2019-22). His research interests include: Caste and ethnic relations and identity politics; Dalits and social transformation in South Asia; education, employment, and social mobility; migration and diaspora communities; poverty and exclusion; social capital and community-based institutions; international and rural development; collective action and the governance of natural resource management; mixed-methods.