Hi! I’m a graduate student in history at All Souls College, Oxford, where I am a Fellow by Examination (since 2025) and Rhodes Scholar (New York & Magdalen 2024). I grew up between New York, Chandigarh, and New Delhi, and graduated from Columbia University in 2024 as salutatorian with honors in history and mathematics.
My research centers on the global intellectual history of “mystical India,” following how India was constructed as mystical and spiritual between eighteenth and twentieth centuries—at once to sustain the mandates of imperial power and to posit alternative universalisms that reimagined the social and political order. More broadly, I am interested in the intellectual and cultural history of Enlightenment and empire, studied through a series of exceptions, limit-cases, and denied possibilities. Ongoing projects include the circulation of early modern Jesuit missionary writings between India and Europe, citizenship debates and personal status law in British and French India, and the political thought of Indian feminists.
This website contains my academic research and writing. In my spare time, I also enjoy knitting and visual art.