Publications

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67 (London: Hurst, 2025 and New York: Oxford University Press, February 2026)

‘Problematising the ‘Pariah’ State: Vocabularies of Caste in International Relations and Indian Diplomacy’, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 20, no. 3 (2025): 405-431, https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191X-bja10216 – Co-authored with Medha.

‘The Caste of Diplomacy’, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 20, no. 3 (2025): 377-404, https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191X-bja10221 – Co-authored with Vineet Thakur and Pavan Kumar.

‘The Privilege of the Indian Passport (1947–1967): Caste, Class, and the Afterlives of Indenture in Indian Diplomacy.’ Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 2 (2023): 321–50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X22000063. Honourable mention, ‘Best Article Award’ (2024) from the International Studies Association Diplomatic Studies Section.

‘Entangled Citizens: The Afterlives of Empire in the Indian Citizenship Act, 1947–1955.’ In The Break-up of Greater Britain, edited by Christian D. Pedersen and Stuart Ward, 63–83. Manchester University Press, 2021.

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