Teaching Interests

Modern South Asian history, human rights, intellectual
history

Broad Areas of Dissertation Supervision

South Asia, Human Rights, (Inter)Nationalism, Intellectual, Postcolonial

Selected Publications

Books



The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World. HarperCollins India, February 2012.

 


Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia. Edited. Oxford University Press,
2010.



Speaking Truth to Power: Religion, Caste, and the Subaltern Question in India. Co-edited with Anne Feldhaus. Oxford University Press, 2008. Published in paperback, July 2009. Second printing, May 2010.

Claiming Power from Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India. Co-edited with Anne Feldhaus. Oxford University Press, 2008. Published in paperback, July 2009

Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education, and Empire in Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Select Articles

"Princely States and the Making of Modern India: Internationalism, Constitutionalism and the Postcolonial Moment." In The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 46(3), September 2009: 427-456.

"A New Hope: India, the United Nations and the Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Modern Asian Studies, 44(2), March 2010: 311-347. Also published in MAS online 13 June 2008. Copyright Cambridge University Press.

"Princely States and the Hindu Imaginary: Exploring the Cartography of Hindu Nationalism in Colonial India." The Journal of Asian Studies, 67(3), August 2008: 881-915. Also published online 23 July 2008. Copyright Cambridge University Press.

"The Hindutva Underground: Hindu Nationalism and the Indian National Congress in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial India." In The Economic and Political Weekly, Special Article, 13 September 2008: 39-48.