Department Faculty

"My primary research interest is political cultures and the intellectural and cultural history of early modern India (16th to early 19th centuries) including the history of the early colonial regime in India. I have secondary research interests in the history of later colonial/modern India and in the history of global contacts and cultural exchanges during the early modern era.

My recent publications include,"The Cultures of History in Early Modern India: Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal" (Oxford University Press, 2009), "Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters", co-edited with Clement Hawes (Bucknell University Press, 2008), and "Cultural Flows and Cosmopolitanism in Mughal India: the Bishnupur Kingdom" (Indian Economic and Social History Review, 46, 2, 2009). I am currently working on a book about cultural cosmopolitanism and State Formation in 17th and 18th century South Asia.