PhD Candidate
South Asia
I am a historian of the Indian Ocean World and South Asia. I specialize in the environmental and material history of commodity circulation in the early modern period. My research deploys commercial records of maritime empires like the Dutch, English and Portuguese, as well as Indo-Persian court records and Sufi poetry from Mughal and sultanate India. Through my research, I explore the entanglements of labor and ecological extractions in moments of heightened global connections.
I earned an M.Phil. in History at the Department of History, University of Delhi in 2016.
I am involved in public history projects including public lectures, heritage walk design and exhibition curation in India and the US.
Research Interests
Indian Ocean world
Environmental history
Labor and social history
Islam in South Asia
Global history
Awards and Grants
2025 Summer Dissertation Writing Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2023 American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Research Fellowship
2023 Simpson ABD Grant, Global, International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley
2022 Maharaj Kaul Grant
2019 Berkeley Graduate Division Fellowship
Teaching
Fall 2025 (DS 104): Human Contexts and Ethics of Data
Fall 2024 (History 1): Global History
Spring 2022 (History 190): Soccer: A Global History
Fall 2021 (History 139C): Defiant Women: Gender, Power and Violence in American History
Spring 2021 (History 7B): Introduction to the History of the United States: Civil War to Present
Fall 2020 (History 11A): The Wonder That was India: Politics, Culture and Philosophy in Premodern South Asia
