Current Projects:
Cast in Stone: Statues and Memories of Empire in Post-Imperial France and Britain ; co-editing a 6-volume Cultural History of South Asia for Bloomsbury Academic; a reference book on British empire and law; a biography of Sayyid Amir Ali, the first Indian judge on the Privy Council; Digitising the Fatawa-yi Alamgiri; a Mughal Empire strategy game
Courses Taught:
Modern South Asian Studies Core Course;
The People of the Mughal Empire: An Introduction to Early Modern South Asia;
Research Methods in Literature, Language and History
Biography:
I am a historian of South Asia with expertise in the early modern (Mughal) and colonial (British-dominated) periods. My work is on the everyday practices of law under empires, and I am particularly interested in functional uses of language, especially languages written in Arabic-derived scripts, such as Persian and Urdu. I am committed to public history and am engaged with research and reinterpretation of colonial heritage in Britain, especially through digital media.
Educational Background:
BA (Hons) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
MA in Modern Indian History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India
M.Phil. in Modern Indian History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India
Ph.D. in History, University of Cambridge, UK
Research Interests:
Islamic law, Mughal empire, Persianate societies, law and colonialism, family and kinship, memory and critical heritage, digital archives
Links:
https://castinstone.exeter.ac.uk/en/home/
https://lawforms.exeter.ac.uk/index.html
