
- Professor, History
- Professor, Biography and Memoir
Research Interests
- 20th-century India; intellectual history; human rights; constitutional history; postcolonial studies
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Interests
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Modern South Asian history, human rights, intellectual history
Broad Areas of Dissertation Supervision
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South Asia, Human Rights, (Inter)Nationalism, Intellectual, Postcolonial
Podcast
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Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit:- University of Oxford podcast on forthcoming biograrphy of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, one of the most influential women of the 20thc.India, 21 Apr 2020
Selected Publications
Books
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Woman of the World: Madam Pandit, India, and the Global Stage. Commissioned by Penguin Random House India, Penguin/Viking Imprint (under contract)
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India and the Cold War (edited). In progress. Under agreement with UNC Press Global Cold War Series, edited by Odd Arne Westad. Target manuscript submission date: June 2017.
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Hidden Histories: Religion and Reform in South Asia (edited, with Syed Akbar Hyder), Forthcoming from Primus Books, tentative release scheduled for July 2017.
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The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World. HarperCollins India, February 2012. Palgrave Macmillan, 9/13/2013.
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Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia. Edited. Oxford University Press, 2010.
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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.
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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
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Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education, and Empire in Colonial India. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Select Articles
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“Reflections on Indian Internationalism and a Postnational Global Order: A response to Partha Chatterjee.” Invited contribution. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Forthcoming in issue 37.2, 2017.
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“The Hand and the Fist: Human Rights and State Power in India.” Invited contribution, in Atul Thakur, India: Now & In Transition (Niyogi Books, forthcoming July 2017).
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
