Publications
My co-authored journal article, ‘Light Writing on the Lathi Raj, Bombay 1930-31’ published in the History of Photography presents a study of the visual history of violent policing in colonial India during the Civil Disobedience Movement. Write to me for a pdf copy.
I have contributed a chapter titled "Interrogating 'Credible Chhattisgarh': Photography and the Construction of a New Indian State" to the edited book Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice published by Routledge. My chapter is derived from my M.Phil. Dissertation written at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at JNU, Delhi. Now in its second edition, this book is extensively used as a teaching resource for photography studies at the university level, both in the UK and India.
My public scholarship on topics related to photography has appeared in ASAP Art, a New Delhi based platform featuring critical perspectives on lens-based practices from South Asia. Following are a selection of my contributions:
“Camera as Imperial Technology: Looking at the Waterhouse Albums,” ASAP Art: Critical Perspectives on Lens-based practices in South Asia, 2021.
“On Photographer Soldiers: Images of Wartime Myanmar (1943-45),” ASAP Art: Critical Perspectives on Lens-based practices in South Asia, 2021.
“Archiving the Archive: Dayanita Singh’s File Room Photographs,” ASAP Art: Critical Perspectives on Lens-based practices in South Asia, 2021.
“Photography as a Fine Art: Experiments with the New Medium in British India,” ASAP Art: Critical Perspectives on Lens-based practices in South Asia, 2021.
“Imperial Projects of Photographic Exploration: Photographer Louis Rousselet in India,” ASAP Art: Critical Perspectives on Lens-based practices in South Asia, 2021.
“Streets of Intimacy: William Gedney’s Banaras Photographs,” ASAP Art: Critical Perspectives on Lens-based practices in South Asia, 2021.