Devika is a Presidential Scholar and PhD Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She explores Indian philosophies of education, indigenous and anti-colonial traditions, and the dynamics of epistemic reproduction and resistance. Blending philosophy and anthropology, her dissertation follows the afterlives of 20th-century alternative education movements in India, asking how visions that challenge modernity continue to find expression within it. Her research is guided by a passion for ecological stewardship and planetary wellbeing.

Latest Publications:

• Agrawal, D. (2025). Awakening ‘the Indian genius’: The epistemic aims of Indian liberatory education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2025.2459094