Select Publications
[To be submitted in 2024]. “A Reckoning with Persian Purāṇas: Exploring the Ethos of Textual Production in Early Modern and Colonial South Asia,” Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation, special issue edited by Sonia Hazard and Elizabeth A. Cecil, Bloomington: Society for Textual Scholarship and Indiana University Press.
[To be submitted in 2024]. “Appraising Book-Objects in the Age of Colonialist Print Cultures,” Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[To be submitted in 2024]. “Appraising Book-Objects in the Age of Colonialist Print Cultures,” Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
[Submitted in 2024]. “Not so White, Not quite Black: A Provincial Life in Monotones,” Montréal Serai, edited by Jody Freeman, Pasha Khan and Shahroza Nahrin, July issue.
[Accepted in 2024]. “Unravelling the Ethos of Literary Imagination in the Basātin al-Ons of Akhsetān Dehlavi,” Journal of Persianate Studies, vol. 17, Leiden: Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and Brill. [Accepted in 2024]. “A Cowherd’s Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography,” Asian Ethnology, special issue edited by Coralynn V. Davis, Christopher L. Diamond and Pranav Prakash, Nagoya: Nanzen University. [Accepted in 2024]. “Critical Contours of Mithila Studies,” co-authored by Coralynn V. Davis, Christopher L. Diamond and Pranav Prakash, Asian Ethnology, Nagoya: Nanzen University. [Submitted in 2023]. “Lekhaka.” In: Philological Practices: A Comparative Historical Lexicon. Edited by Glenn W. Most, Anne Eusterschulte and Martin Kern. Princeton: Princeton University Press. |
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[Submitted in 2023]. “Colophons, Book Objects and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of a colonial-era scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to early modern Mughal elites." In: Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Premodern Eurasia. Edited by Paul Dilley and Katherine H. Tachau. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) Papers, New York University.
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2022. “Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite: A Codicological Reappraisal,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Cambridge University Press, 32 (1), pp. 83–114. DOI: 10.1017/S1356186322100078X. Weblink.
2021. “Reviving Indo-Islamic Papermaking Traditions: Radha Pandey, Johan Solberg and Holden Bookworks,” Guild of Book Workers Newsletter, no. 259, pp. 9–10. Weblink. 2019. “ʿIšqnāma.” In: Perso-Indica: An Analytical Survey of Persian Works on Indian Learned Traditions, vol. 1. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale and Carl W. Ernst. Brill. ISSN 2267-2753. Weblink. 2018. “Maithili’s Resistance to Hindi’s Hegemony and Undemocratic Nationalism: Mithilesh Kumar Jha’s Making of the Maithili Movement,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, Issue No. 44 (Nov 3): pp. 24–27. Weblink. 2018. “Abʾul Kalām Āzād.” In: Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Edited by Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Jehan Bagli. Part of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 978-94-024-1266-6. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_773. Weblink. |
2015. "Toward a Surprisingly Similar Yet Different Form of Imagination." Translation of a Persian essay composed by Azita Ghahreman. In: Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. University of Iowa: Iowa Translations Workshop. Weblink.