About

I am a historian of gender and economic life in twentieth-century South Asia.

I write on women’s experiences of navigating the economic sphere in contexts shaped by long-term poverty and precarity. My research centres the working lives of women pushed to the margins of society by their gender and socio-economic status, arguing that women’s labour — paid and unpaid — is central and structural to the South Asian economy.

Currently, I am a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at Harvard University’s Center for History and Economics.

I completed my DPhil and MPhil in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford and read for a BA in History at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. I am deeply grateful to the University of Oxford, the Oxford Global History of Capitalism Project, Kellogg and Brasenose Colleges, the Royal Historical Society, and the Institute for Historical Research for supporting my work.