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PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1. Feeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya

(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2021)

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2. Waiting on Empire: History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain

(OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023)

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JOURNAL ARTICLES

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BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. “Intimate Lives on Rubber Plantations: The textures of Indian coolie relations in British Malaya,” in Crispin Bates (ed), Indenture and After: Gender, Agency and Resistance, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, in press and expected in 2023)

  2. Stranded: How Travelling Indian Ayahs negotiated War and Abandonment in Europe,” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 30:1(2023): 33-54

  3. Becoming Visible: Travel Documents and Travelling Ayahs in the British Empire,” South Asian Studies, 38: 2 (2022): 141-160

  4. Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak,” in Ajaya Sahoo (ed), Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism (Routledge, 2022) 281-293

  5. Pony Up!: Managing Destitution among British Grooms from Australia in Nineteenth Century India,Journal of Labour History, 122:1 (2022): 155–179

  6. Responses to Traveling Indian Ayahs in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain,” Journal of Historical Geography, 71 (2021): 94-103  -Winner of Coordinating Council of Women in History, Carol Gold Award, 2022

  7. Knocker Ups: A Social History of Waking up in Victorian Britain’s Industrial Towns,”  Journal of  Victorian Culture, 25:3 (2020): 331–348  -Selected as JVC Editor’s Choice Article, Summer 2020

  8. Negotiating Gendered Spaces in Colonial Press: Wives of European Planters in British Malaya,”Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 18:3 (2017)

  9. Immorality’, Nationalism and the Colonial State in British Malaya: Indian ‘coolie’ women’s intimate lives as ideological battleground,” Journal of Women’s History Review, 25:4 (2016): 584-601

  10. ““Immorality”, Nationalism and the Colonial State in British Malaya: Indian ‘coolie’ women’s intimate lives as ideological battleground,” in Barbara Bush and June Purvis, eds., Connecting Women's Histories: The local and the global (Routledge, 2018), 91-108

  11. "Social Memory and Indian Women from Malaya and Singapore in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment,” Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 88:2 (2015): 77-103

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PUBLIC HISTORY

  1. Managing horses on the High Seas: Horse Grooms in the Service of the British Empire,Radical Currents, Labour Histories, Summer, no. 2 (2022): 11-13

  2. “Curry tales of the Empire,” Journal of Victorian Culture Online (The blog and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture), May 2021

  3. “Women in the business of waking up industrial Britain” Journal of Victorian Culture Online (The blog    and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture), June 2020

  4. “Shampoo Empire,” History Today, 70:3 (March 2020): 40-49

  5. Punkhawallahs: Keeping British India Cool," History Today, 69:9 (September 2019): 54-63.  Named as one of the best articles for History Today, 2019 

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