I am currently working on my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. I am pursuing a joint-degree in the Department of South Asia Studies & Department of History. I am being supervised by Dr. Ramya Sreenivasan, Dr. Lisa Mitchell, Dr. Daud Ali, & Dr. Devesh Kapur.
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Invited Talks & Presentations
May 25, 2018 – “Monetary crisis and financial innovations in late-Mughal Gujarat: Anth and illegal exactions in the money markets of Ahmedabad” (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, India’s Politics in its Vernaculars workshop, Cambridge University)
February 28, 2018 – “Elite business households, financial capital, and public authority in modern times” (Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania)
November 17, 2017 – “From Diamonds to Denim: The Lalbhai Group and historical trajectories of contemporary family businesses” (Telling Histories of Business Families workshop, Princeton University)
November 12, 2016 – “The language of political shopkeeping in 18th-century Gujarat: Marifat and biware as recorded in the diary of a traveling Mughal bureaucrat” (India’s Politics in its Vernaculars workshop, University of Pennsylvania) Abstract
“Methods & perspectives in writing Asian historical economies: Reading the economy through diaries, travelogues, and literary sources from India, Korea, and China” Special roundtable co-organized with Dr. Holly Stephens (Yale), Association for Asian Studies in Asia conference, New Delhi, July 2018 Abstract
Presentations
April 5, 2018 – “Indigenous bankers, princely states, and accumulating debts in colonial India” (The Business History Conference on Money, Finance, & Capital, panel on “Family Capitalism in the Indian Ocean World”, Baltimore)
January 5, 2018 – “Querying the Repository: Generating a data revolution from descriptive archival and library catalogs” (Lives of Data workshop on Computing, Money, & Media, The Sarai Program, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
October 25, 2016 – “Rethinking land rights in early modern India: Small town financiers & the growth of revenue farming” (Annual South Asia Studies conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
July 29, 2016 – “Manuscript variations of Dabistan-i Mazahib and writing histories of religion in Mughal India” (European Association of South Asia Studies conference, University of Warsaw-Poland)
August 20, 2015 – “Changing landscape of Hauz Khas: Land Laws, city planning & monumentality in Delhi” (Inhabited Pasts: Many lives of monuments in Delhi seminar, Goethe Institut-New Delhi)
May 8, 2015 – “Revisiting the ‘Great Firm’ theory of Mughal decline” (Graduate Student Conference, UC Berkeley)
