2013-2018: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), PhD in History (Modern South Asia). Thesis title: "'To Shake Hands Across the Ocean': The Political Worlds of South Asian Seamen, c. 1918-1946." 

2010-2012: Jawaharlal Nehru University, MA in History. 

2007-2010: University of Delhi, BA (Hons) English.

2019-2021: Assistant Professor of History, Krea University

2019: Caird Fellow, Royal Museums Greenwich

20th century political movements, global histories of migration and anticolonialism, subaltern history

Monograph (In Preparation) 'To Shake Hands Across the Ocean': The Political Worlds of South Asian Seamen, 1917- 1946. Cambridge University Press.

•  "The Revolutionary Indian Ocean in the Long WW2" (Forthcoming) in Ruth Lawlor and Andy Buchanan (eds)., The Global Second World War, University of North Carolina Press, 2023 (estimated).
•  "Decolonisation from the Seas: Mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy, 1946" (accepted) Historical Research, February 2022. Winner of the 2019 Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History (Institute of Historical Research, London).
•  "Violent and Not Quite Modern?: Lascars and Everyday Resistance Across the Sail-Steam Divide". Labour History (Special Issue on Maritime History), Number 116, May 2019.
•  "Colonial Labour in Perspective: Towards a Global History of the Maritime Labour Market". Published online on The History Project website, August 2018. (Url: http://www.histproj.org/completed_projects_full.html)

• 2021-2022: Young Faculty Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
• 2019-2021: Fellowship Awardee, Faculty Research Fellowships, Krea University.
•  2019:         Winner, Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History (Institute of Historical Research, London)
•  2018:         Caird Short-Term Fellowship (National Maritime Museum, UK).
•  2017:          History Project Grant (Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge and the Institute for New Economic Thought, Harvard).
•  2016:          Charles Wallace India Trust Grant toward final year of study in the UK.
• 2013-2015:  Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Scholarship.
• 2015:           SOAS Fieldwork Award. 2015. 

• Researching the Social, Political and Historical (Research Methods)
• Power and Powerlessness: Caste, Class and Gender in Indian History
• A Social History of Post-Renaissance Mathematics
• Exploring the Social and Historical (compulsory first year undergraduate course)
• Writing and Oral Communication (compulsory first year undergraduate course)
• Colonial Subalterns in the World Wars. Convenor, 2017 (Jan-May), 2018 (Jan-May)