Dr. Uddhab Pyakurel is an Associate Professor of Political Sociology and the Dean of the School of Arts at Kathmandu University, Nepal. He holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His academic work and extensive research focus closely on state restructuring, political sociology, social inclusion and exclusion dynamics, labor migration, and India-Nepal relations. A prominent public intellectual and author, Dr. Pyakurel has published several books and papers examining structural inequality, including his authoritative monograph, Reproduction of Inequality and Social Exclusion: A Study of Dalits in a Caste Society, Nepal (Springer, 2021).