I am a historian of South Asia and the British Empire, with expertise in women’s history, visual culture, and digital humanities. My interdisciplinary research draws on image-based and textual archives to enrich scholarly approaches to history-making and history-writing in the modern world.

I hold a dual appointment as an Instructor in the Department of History and the International Comparative Studies Program at Duke University.

My latest publication is Photographing Civil Disobedience: Bombay, 1930–31 (Mapin/Alkazi, 2025). My curated exhibition Disobedient Subjects: Bombay, 1930–31 has been profiled by the BBC, Frontline, The Times of India, Reader’s Digest, and Hindustan Times.

Learn more about my ongoing research on the visual, consumer, and gender history of disobedience in colonial India here.

Linked here is a summary of my recent publications, and you can find ways to connect with me here.