I am a global historian of empire, race, and migration, working across modern India and the Indian diaspora. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, where I earned my PhD in 2025; in 2024–2025, I held a Doctoral Fellowship in the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

My work follows British imperialism, Indian migration, and racial politics as they moved across the Indian Ocean, Pacific, and Atlantic worlds. I am drawn above all to those activists who carried their politics across borders and often took up others’ struggles as their own, and in particular to the exchanges that bound the Indian freedom struggle to anticolonialism in East and South Africa and the African American Civil Rights Movement. I am also interested in the long dispersal of South Asians across these same oceans, from East Africa to the Americas, including the diaspora that now calls the United States home.

My book manuscript, The Colour of Anticolonialism, based on my doctoral dissertation, places antiracism at the centre of the Indian freedom struggle. A second, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic and titled Indian Americans: History, Culture, and Experiences, traces the story of the Indian diaspora in the United States.

Outside of research and teaching, I enjoy cinema, postcolonial literature, cricket and football—especially Manchester United—and music, with no regard for genre.