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

I study exceptions, limit-cases, and denied possibilities in the historical encounter between Europe and India. My doctoral project traces how India came to be associated with mysticism and spirituality since the eighteenth century, tracing how “mystical India” became not only an Orientalist trope, but also a resource to develop alternative universalisms and reimagine the 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 feminists.

At Oxford, I co-convene the Global Intellectual History Seminar and the Eliot as Historian reading group, where, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s observation that “the overflow of George Eliot's capacious mind should have spread itself... upon history and biography,” we discuss how literary works such as Middlemarch and War and Peace offer alternative means of writing history. I also serve as Primary Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog.

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. In my spare time, I also enjoy visual art.