Hi! I’m a Fellow by Examination at All Souls College, Oxford.

I research exceptions, limit-cases, and denied possibilities in the historical encounter between Europe and India since the early modern period. My doctoral project traces how India came to be associated with mysticism and spirituality between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, following how “mystical India” served not only as an Orientalist trope, but also as a resource through which historical actors developed alternative universalisms to reimagine their social and political order. Elsewhere, I have written about the circulation of Jesuit missionary texts to Enlightenment France and British India, the politics of teaching Sanskrit in Victorian universities, citizenship law in the French empire, and the political thought of Indian women’s movement.

I completed my MPhil in Intellectual History at Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar (New York & Magdalen 2024), and my B.A. in History and Mathematics at Columbia, where I graduated as salutatorian. Before that, I grew up between Chandigarh, New Delhi, and New York.

This website contains my research and writing. I also serve as Primary Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. In my spare time, I enjoy visual art.