PhD in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University , in 2008
M.A. in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University , in 2001
B.A (Hons.) in Political Science from University of Delhi , in 1999
Research Interests
Critical International Relations theory
Indian strategic thought and practice
Transboundary resource governance in South Asia
Memory Politics
Postcolonial Theory
Recent Publications
‘One World or Many? Critical Reflections on Cosmopolitanism and International Relations’, Journal of Polity and Society, 15 (2), forthcoming.
‘Not just ‘Somewhere South of Sovereignty and East of Equality’: Indian Strategizing in the Age of Transnational Solidarities’, Studies in Indian Politics,12(1): 117-128, 2024.
‘“Where We Need Water, We Find Guns Instead”: Understanding the Securitization of Sovereignty Claims on the Brahmaputra’, India Review, 23 (2): 134-153, 2024.
'Context is King: Situating the Kautilyan Notion of Sovereignty within India's Strategic Traditions', Journal of Polity and Society, 13 (2), January-June 2022.
Guest Editor, Special Issue on ‘Chronicling the histories of India: The politics of remembrance and commemoration’, India Review, 20 (5), 2021.
‘Introduction to the Special Issue on Chronicling the histories of India: The politics of remembrance and commemoration’, India Review, 20 (5): 483-496, 2021.
‘Victorious Outliers: India’s Border Regions and the Contested Memory Politics of the Burma Campaign’ (co-authored with Nimmi Kurian), India Review, 20 (5): 497-509, 2021.
‘Scratches on our Sovereignty? Analyzing Conservation Politics in the Sundarbans’, Regions and Cohesion, 11 (1): 1-20, 2021.
‘” The Eyed Side of the Glass”: Transnational Curation and the Politics of Exhibiting the Empire in a post-Imperial World’, Postcolonial Studies, 24 (2):195-211, 2021.
‘No Mountain too High? Assessing the Trans-territoriality of the Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative’, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 35 (2): 255-268, 2020.
‘Indianisation or Indigenisation? Greater India and the Politics of Cultural Diffusionism’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 56 (1): 1-21, 2018.
Recent Books
Interrogating International Relations: India’s Strategic Practice and the Return of History, War and International Politics in South Asia Series, New Delhi and London: Routledge, 2011.