Hello! I’m a History PhD student at Lancaster University. My research focusses on forms of knowledge that evolved in Cochin and Travancore, c. 1840-1940. These were two princely states in what is now the state of Kerala in India. Ruling and elite castes in these states often collaborated with the colonial administration of British India, influencing the many anthropological, historical, geographical, and statistical reports coming out of the region. I investigate this academic-administrative complex and the work it produced. I work within a decolonial, anti-caste framework that centres the archive as a historical artefact in its own right. My interest lies in using digital methods to deconstruct the form of these reports and study the influence of caste and race on these forms of knowledge production. My research intersects with work in the fields of book history, document image analysis, and critical caste studies.

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Before I stumbled into History, my nerd origin story was in a literature department, where I grew a particular fascination for theories of performance and resistance and how these can be translated into praxis. I am open to submissions relating to any of my fields of interest/expertise!