Author, Historian, Educator
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
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“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)
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“Stranded: How Travelling Indian Ayahs negotiated War and Abandonment in Europe,” Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 30:1(2023): 33-54
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“Becoming Visible: Travel Documents and Travelling Ayahs in the British Empire,” South Asian Studies, 38: 2 (2022): 141-160
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“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
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“Pony Up!: Managing Destitution among British Grooms from Australia in Nineteenth Century India,” Journal of Labour History, 122:1 (2022): 155–179
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“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
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“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
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“Negotiating Gendered Spaces in Colonial Press: Wives of European Planters in British Malaya,”Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 18:3 (2017)
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“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
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““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
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"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
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“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
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“Curry tales of the Empire,” Journal of Victorian Culture Online (The blog and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture), May 2021
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“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
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“Shampoo Empire,” History Today, 70:3 (March 2020): 40-49
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“Punkhawallahs: Keeping British India Cool," History Today, 69:9 (September 2019): 54-63. Named as one of the best articles for History Today, 2019