Education:

Ph.D. (Modern Indian History), Centre for Historical Studies, JNU

Field(s) of Interest:

British Empire and the Hills, Environment, Social and Legal History

Area of Specialization:

Modern and Contemporary History

Achievement

1. Selected for an ICCR India Chair of Indian Studies abroad at the University of Vienna, Austria to teach for one semester from March 2018 till June 2018.

Fellowship/Scholarship

1. Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Scholarship for Doctoral Studies in India given by Nehru Memorial Fund, 1997-1999.

2. Selected as the Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 2010- 2012. 

Book:

Empire in the Hills: Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu (1820-1920) published by OUP (India), the First Edition in January 2017 (ISBN-13: 978-0-19-946355-8 ISBN-10: 0-19-946355-7).

Research Papers:

1. “Development versus Picturesque: Conflicting Developmental Trajectories in Simla and Darjeeling (1820-1920)”, Critical Imprints, Loreto Journal, Vol.3, pp.116-136, March 2015, ISSN 2319-4774.

2. “Oral Tradition, Colonial Encounter and Popular Culture: A Critical Reading of Alice E. Dracott’s Simla Village Tales”, Indraprastha, Journal of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GGS IP University, Vol. III, pp.49-64, 2014, ISSN 2278-7208.

3. “Understanding Law, Religion and Sovereignty in Qanun-i-Humayunií” in Religion and Law Review, Vol. XXIII: No.2, pp.15-36, 2014, ISSN 0971-3212.

4. “Dehumanising People, Erasing Histories: Colonialism, Marginalisation and the Law”, in Indraprastha, Journal of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GGS IP University, pp.44-58, 2013-14, ISSN: 2278-7208.

5. “Representation and Contestation: Hills in Colonial Imagination (Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu, 1820-1920)”, in Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis, Series Historica, Volume X, Supplement, pp.121-136, 2013, ISSN 1584-3165. 

1. Invited to deliver a lecture on ‘The Empire, Hills, and History: Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu (Nineteenth and Twentieth century)’, in the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU on 27th September 2017.

2. ‘Imperial Hygiene and Popular Culture in the Colonial Hill Stations in India’, in the Himalayan Studies Conference V, held at Boulder, Colorado, USA, from September 1-4, 2017 under the panel ‘Himalayan Histories’.

3. ‘Hills in the travel writings of the nineteenth century’ presented at the National Seminar on Travel Writing as Literature and History March 23 & 24, 2017 held at the Punjabi University, Patiala on 23rd March 2017.

4. ‘History and Oral Narratives: Reimagining boundaries and regions’ on 7th March 2017 at the National Seminar on Boundaries and Frontiers in South Asia, 7th - 8 th March 2017 at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

5. ‘Reimagining the Hills: Spaces, History and Empire’ on 9th March 2016 in the National Seminar on Making of Regions in South Asian History, 9-10 March 2016, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

The list of the Multi-Disciplinary Courses (MDC) to be opted by the students of their USS as per there scheme and syllabus for the Second Semester students. The class size of MDC will be 60 students. 

1. List of MDC offered for the 2nd Semester, 2025-26 Batch