Peer Reviewed Articles

"Decolonization in the 1960s: On Legitimate and Illegitimate Nationalist Claims-making," Past & Present, Vol. 242, No. 1, pp. 227–264.  February 2019.

 

"Jayaprakash Narayan and the Politics of Reconciliation for the Postcolonial State and its Imperial Fragments," The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 147-169. April 2019.

 

“General, I Have Fought Just as Many Nuclear Wars as You Have:’ Forecasts, Future and the Politics of Armageddon,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 117, No. 5, pp. 1431-1460. (co-author) December 2012.

 

“Forging a Lock, Turning a Key: Counterinsurgency Theory in Iraq 2006 – 2008,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 32, No. 10, pp. 909-918.  September 2009.

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Selected Commentary/Essays

"Minority Nationalisms in Postwar Decolonization” in Michael Goebel, ed., "Rethinking Nationalism," The American Historical Review, Vol. 127, No. 1, pp. 351-354. March 2022.

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“Microsyllabus: Citizenship and Provisional Belonging in South Asia,” Radical History Review/Abusable Past, January 2020 (co-author with Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, and Kalyani Ramnath).

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"Fifty years on, Jayaprakash Narayan’s views on Kashmir hold pointers for the present crisis," Scroll.in, September 2019.

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"Why have we forgotten one of WWII’s most important battles?," The Washington Post, June 2019.

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"Development Politics and India's Cold War Triangle: An Interview with David Engerman," Toynbee Prize Foundation, October 2018.

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"Who Deserves Independence?" Epicenter,  Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, July 2018.