Education

• M.A. History, University of Virginia, 2023
• Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Virginia, 2023
• M.Phil. Modern Indian History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2021
  Thesis: "Tales from a Colonial Bench": Debates on the Judicial Profession in Bengal, c. 1861-1919
• M.A. Modern Indian History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018
• B.A. History, Jadavpur University, 2016

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History, specializing in modern South Asia. My doctoral project examines governmental attitudes towards infanticide and abortion in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century India. It explores social, medical, and legal debates on women who were accused of infanticide and abortion to understand how their criminality was shaped in the colonial context. 

I joined the Department of History at UVa in 2021 and received my Master's degree in 2023. My Master's thesis focused on medico-legal discourses on abortion and its criminalization in colonial India. I have also received a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UVa.

Awards and Honors

• Bernadotte Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, Summer 2025
• Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, Asian Division, Library of Congress, Spring 2025
• Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship, Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Virginia, Fall 2024- Spring 2025
• Graduate Global Research Grant, Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation, University of Virginia, Spring 2023
• DGS Fall Conference Travel Award, Department of History, University of Virginia, Spring 2023
• WGS Graduate Research Grant, Women, Gender & Sexuality Department, University of Virginia, 2023
• Summer Research Grant, Department of History, University of Virginia, 2023

Publications

• Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

  “The Trial of Musammat Kelee: Widowhood, Infanticide, and Colonial Justice in Early Twentieth Century India,” Socio-Legal Review, 21, no. 1 (2025). 
  Available at: https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/vol21/iss1/5/

• Book Review

   Mytheli Sreenivas, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, University of Washington Press, 2021, Asian Affairs, 53, no. 3, May 2022, 800-802 
   DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2022.2074735

Courses Taught

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the following courses:

• HISA 2003: History of Modern India (Fall 2025)
• HIEU 2004: Nationalism in Europe (Fall 2023)
• HIEU 3021: Greek and Roman Warfare (Spring 2023)
• HIEA 2031: Modern China (Fall 2022)