B.A. (2000), M.A. (2002), M.Phil. (2005), Delhi University, India.
M.A. (2006), Ph.D. (2012), University of California, Los Angeles.
Medieval and Early Modern South Asia; Gujarat and the Indian Ocean world; Muslim communities in South Asia; Persian sufi literature.
Medieval and Mughal India; Regional histories; Comparative history of early modern empires; Arabic literature produced in and/or related to South Asia; Muslim travelers and the Indian Ocean world; Sufism.
Courses
Spring 2013
HIST 268A: South Asian History up to c. 1500 C.E.
HIST 362A: The Mughal Empire, c. 1500-1750 C.E.
Fall 2013
HIST 269A: History of Early Modern and Modern South Asia, c. 1500-1990 C.E.
HIST 362A: The Mughal Empire, c. 1500-1750 C.E.
2005- 2007: Program Assistant, Center for India and South Asia, University of California, Los Angeles.
2003- 2005: Editorial Assistant, Indian Economic and Social History Review.
Review of Farhat Hasan, State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c. 1572-1730, Cambridge, 2004 in Indian Economic and Social History Review, 44, December 2007, pp. 540-1.
"Amir Khwurd’s Usage of Sijzi and Barani: The Making of the Siyar al-Awliya", Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 64th Session, 2003, pp. 509-17.
Ph.D. Dissertation (2012): "Texts, Tombs and Memory: The Migration, Settlement and Formation of a Learned Muslim Community in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat"
M.Phil. Dissertation (2005): “Stature, Social Relations and the Piety-Minded: Reading Amīr Khwurd’s Siyar al-Awliyā’”
UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (2011-12); UCLA Asia Institute Graduate Fellowship (2008-09 and 2010-11); Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (2008-09); UCLA Chancellor’s Prize – Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (Summer 2007 and 2006).
Member, American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, Society for Advancing the History of South Asia, Indian History Congress.