Essays

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I write about anticolonial thought in South Asia and Africa; anti-racist and anti-casteist political activism; comparative world literature; postcolonial theory; and gay history and writing. You can find links to those essays and articles below.

Anticolonialism

What do you do after a revolution? Global South Studies
Consciousness and Conscience in the Global South. Comparative Literary Studies.
Bhagat Singh’s Atheism. History Workshop Journal
An Anticolonial Theory of Reading. PMLA
What we talk about when we talk about the revolutionaries for a roundtable in South Asian History and Culture
The Best Anticolonial Writing at Five Books
Anticolonialism at Global South Studies
Sömürge karşıtlığı for Sabah Ülkesi (Turkish)
The Martyr, the Moviegoer: Bhagat Singh at the Cinema. Bioscope: The Journal of South Asian Screen Studies
Commonplace Anticolonialism: Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook and the Politics of Reading. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Echoes of Ghadr: Har Dayal and the Time of Anticolonialism. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
The ‘Arch Priestess of Anarchy’ Visits Lahore: Violence, Love, and the Worldliness of Revolutionary Texts. Postcolonial Studies
Translating Gandhi at the South Asian American Digital Archive
Echoes of Mutiny, and the Ghosts That Live On at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop 
The Anticolonial Ethics of Lala Har Dayal’s Hints for Self Culture. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Occasional Papers: History and Society

Book Reviews & Commentary

Book Review of Elizabeth Anker’s On Paradox for Law and Literature
What Should World Literature Do? Postcolonial Studies.
1990 at 30: Introduction with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan at post45
A Future Metaphysics: Before and After Robert J.C. Young’s White Mythologies at post45
The Form of Global Anglophone Literature is Grenfell Tower at post45
Book Review of Ajay Skaria’s Unconditional Equality for Political Theory
“The Temporal Order of Modernity Has Changed”: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh for boundary 2
Too Much Light in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Empire & Diaspora

Queer Writing & History

The Inheritance of Law and Literature. Journal of Masculinity, Sexuality, and Bodies
“You Could Have Changed Everything” at Public Books
Review of The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst at Quarterly Conversation
The World of Gay World Lit at Public Books

Human Rights & Activism