About My Work
My current project, tentatively titled “Urbanization, Land Regimes, and Global Connections: Twentieth-Century Hyderabad in a World of Cities,” is an urban history of Hyderabad City in an era of the rapid expansion of built-up area, population, and urban footprint, from c. 1910 to the present. The book will track Hyderabad’s connections to other cities and places on a scale from the provincial to the global; examine the multiple means of occupying, claiming, and developing urban land as property; and the divergent conceptions of an urban public these dynamics produce.
Citations
PUBLICATIONS:
Hyderabad, British India and the World: Muslim Networks and Minor Sovereignty, c. 1850–1950, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (SAARC edition, CUP–India, 2016).
“Beyond Colonial Urbanism: State Power, Global Connections, and Fragmented Land Regimes in Twentieth-Century Hyderabad City,” Special Issue: “Princely Cities: Towards a New Urban History of South Asia, c. 1860–1960,” eds. Prashant Kidambi and Kate Boehme, Urban History (FirstView 2022, forthcoming in 2023).
“Introduction: Rethinking Sovereignty, Colonial Empires, and Nation-States in South Asia and Beyond,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40.3 (2020): 407–20.
“Old Borderlands: Sovereignty and Autonomy in the Hyderabad Deccan, ca. 1800–2014,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 40.3 (2020): 454–67
“Documenting the World in Indo-Persianate & Imperial English: Idioms of Textual Authority in Hyderabad,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62.5–6 (2019): 1046–78.
“Securing Empire’s Borderlands: Reflections from South Asia.,” Journal of Modern European History 16.3 (2018)
“Territoriality in Motion: Waqf and Hyderabad State” in Special Volume: “Muslim Endowments and Trusts in Asia,” ed. Amelia Fauzia, Till Mostowlansky, and Nurfadzilah Yahaya, The Muslim World (2018) 109.1.
“Urbanist Expansions: Planner-Technocrats, Patrimonial Ethics and State Development in Hyderabad,” in “Beyond the Colonial City: Re-Evaluating the Urban History of India, 1920–1970,” ed. Douglas E. Haynes and Nikhil Rao, special issue, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 36.3 (2013).
“Colonial Urbanism and South Asian Cities: A Review Essay,” Social History 36.4 (2011).
Professional Associations
Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting
Urban History Association
Madison South Asia Conference
American Historical Association