Books
Chips from a Calcutta Workshop: Comparative Religion in Nineteenth Century India. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Recasting the Region: Language, Culture, and Islam in Colonial Bengal. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. 352 pp.
Edited Volumes
India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2022. 257 pp. Indian edition: Delhi, Manohar, 2023.
South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. 253 pp. Paperback edition, 2022.
Culture and Power in South Asian Islam: Defying the Perpetual Exception. London and New Delhi: Routledge. 146 pp. Paperback edition, 2017.
Between Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 520 pp.
Rights of Man (English translation of Utpal Dutt’s Maanusher Adhikare). Kolkata: Seagull Books. 237 pp.
Recent Journal Articles (Since 2020)
2023 “Revisiting Modern Religion in Imperial India” Journal of American Academy of Religion 91, no. 3 (March 2023): 9 – 13.
2021 “The History of Afghanistan as Global History” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41, no. 2 (August): 237 – 243.
2021 “Introduction: South Asian Migrations in Global Histories” Journal of World History 32, 1 (March): 1 – 17.
2020 “Taraknath Das (1884 – 1958), British Columbia, and the Anti-Colonial Borderlands,” BC Studies (204): 67 – 88.
2020 “Lex Mercatoria, Legal Pluralism, and the Modern State through the Lens of the East India Company, 1600–1757” (co-authored with Victor Ramraj) Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 40, 2 (August): 277 – 290.
Recent Book Chapters (Since 2020)
2025 “Partitioned and Regionalized Visions in South Asian Diasporas: Indian and Pakistani Leagues of America in the Era of Decolonization” in South Asia’s Freedom in Global Perspective: Nation, Partition, Federation, edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, New York: Routledge.
2024 “Vernaculars across Texts: Modern Islam and Modern Literature in Bengal” in Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, edited by Nishat Zaidi and Hans Harder, 273 – 294. Delhi: Routledge India.
2022 “Taraknath Das: Race and Citizenship between India and the U.S.A,” in The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization, edited by Nico Slate and Harald Fischer-Tine, 141 – 162. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
2020 “Taraknath Das: A Global Biography,” South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives, edited by Neilesh Bose, 157—178. London: Bloomsbury.
Recent Review Essays (Since 2020)
2024 “The Resurgence of Religion: Worldmaking in the Era of Desecularization” Social Science Research Council, posted 23 May.
2023 “Amar Sonar Bangla: A Light Touch,” a Syndicate review of An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal by Poulomi Saha, Columbia University Press, 2020, posted 17 August.
2023 Union Zindabad! South Asian Canadian Labor History in British Columbia by Donna Sacuta, Bailey Garden, and Anushay Malik, University of Fraser Valley South Asian Studies Institute, 2022, BC Studies (216): 151-152.
2022 Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia by Anand Yang, University of California Press, 2021, Journal of World History 33, no. 4 (December): 703-706.
2022 Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright, Stanford University Press, interview for Maidaanam: Culture, History, and Politics from the Deccan and Southern India, posted 24 August.
2021 Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel, Harvard University Press, 2020, H-Soz-Kult. Posted 29 April.
2021 History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200 – 2000 by Sumit Guha, University of Washington Press South Asian History and Culture, published online 27 April.
2021 “Delimiting the Nation: The Politics of Theatrical and Electoral Representation in Late Colonial India” Journal of Asian Studies 80, no. 3 (August): 759 – 761.
2020 “South Asia Archive” South Asian Review 42, (2), published online 12 October.
2020 A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Ali, Princeton University Press, Asian Studies Review 44, 2: 360 – 362.
2020 Nation and Region in Grierson’s linguistic survey of India and Colonialism and knowledge in Grierson’s linguistic survey of India by Javed Majeed, Routledge, Global Intellectual History 7 (1), 186 – 88, published online 17 January.
Special Sections Edited (Since 2021)
2023 “Roundtable on Religion as Polity Formation: Revisiting Modern Religion in Imperial India” Journal of American Academy of Religion 91, 1 (March): 9 – 68.
2021 “India and Africa in Parallax” Borderlines, conversation moderated between Shobana Shankar, Meera Venkatachalam, and Renu Modi, posted 15 June 2021.
2021 “South Asian Migrations in Modern Global Histories” Journal of World History 32, 1 (March): 1 – 63.
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