• IIT Mandi
  • India in the 1950s: Biography of a Foundational Decade
  • Popular Culture in Modern India: A Historical Perspective
  • Human Geography
  • Modern China
• St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University
  • B.A. (Hons.) History: History of Modern China and Japan
  • B.A. Programme : Issues in World History – Twentieth Century World
  • B.A. Programme : Indian Art (Survey Course taught to foreign exchange students from USA and France)
• Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR), Delhi University
  • B.A. (Hons.) History: History of Modern India, 1857-1950
  • B.A. (Hons.) English, Hindi, Sanskrit and Sociology: Cultural History of Modern India
• Gargi College, Delhi University
  • B.A. (Hons.) History: Modern East Asian History
  • B.A. (Hons.) History: History of Medieval India
  • B.A. (Programme): Indian Art (Survey Course)

• 2017: IIT Mandi Foundation Day Award for ‘Significant contribution to planning and execution of the 5WIP and also the Human Values Module in the programme’
• 2016: IIT Mandi Foundation Day Award for ‘Achieving High Quality Teaching as a New Teacher’
• 2003: St. Stephen’s College: PN Bhalla Memorial Prize
• 2003: St. Stephen’s College: Sanwa Bank Scholarship

• July-August 2013: Grant to participate in the month-long 8th Annual Decolonization Seminar organized by the United States Library of Congress and National History Centre of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., USA
• June 2005 – 2009: Junior/Senior Research Fellowships (NET-JRF) by the University Grants Commission, Government of India
• March-August 2011: Awarded 6 month long research grant by DAAD (Germany) under the Passage to India programme to undertake research at the Center for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
• May-June 2010: Awarded Charles Wallace Research Grant for research at the British Library, London
• June 2008: Awarded grant to represented JNU at the International Summer School on Cultural Diversity, held at the University of Bologna, Italy
• October 2002: Awarded Teaching Assistantship at Keio SFC University, Tokyo, Japan

• Workshop on 'Village Studies in India: Historical Overview and Methodological Issues' by Dr. Rinki Sarkar (March 2017, 2018 and 2019) – organized in capacity as Coordinator, ISTP course, IIT Mandi
• TLC Workshop for Teaching Assistants, IIT Mandi (13 February 2017) – organized and conducted
• TLC Workshop for Teaching Assistants, IIT Mandi (06 May 2017) – organized and conducted
• 'Faculty Orientation Workshop on the Induction Program and Universal Human Values' (03-05 June 2016) conducted by Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIT BHU – organized
• Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) Workshop for Teaching Assistants, IIT Mandi (16 December 2016) – organized and conducted

Journal Articles

• ‘‘The Ban Formula: Non-Indian Authors and the Colonial State in the 1920s-30s’, Indian Historical Review, 45(1), June 2018, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0376983618768934
• Alarmist Stories and Defeatist Views: Censorship and Morale in India during the Second World War’, War in History, 26 (2), April 2019, pp. 250-264. ` https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344517702182
• ‘In the Light, and in the Shadows: Censored Writers in Independent India’, Summerhill, 22(2), Winter 2016. Journal of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
• ‘Chronicles of India: Jabez T. Sunderland’s India in Bondage’, Indian Horizons, 62(4), October-December 2015. Journal of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.
• ‘Press Censorship in India in the 1950s’, Perspectives in Indian Development, New Series 49, March 2015. Occasional Paper, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Referenced in the Wikipedia article on ‘Censorship in India’.

Book Reviews

• ‘Conquering Commodity: Tea in Britain’, (Review of Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World, by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger, 2016), The Book Review, XL(12), December 2016.
• ‘The Lived Experience of Technology’ (Review of Ritika Prasad, Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India, Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Book Review, XL(5), May 2016.
• 'Material, Spiritual, Divine Ganga' (Review of Assa Doron, Richard Barz and Barbara Nelson (eds), An Anthology of Writings on the Ganga: Goddess and River in History, Culture, and Society, Oxford University Press, 2014), The Book Review, XXXIX(10), October 2015.
• ‘Origins of the Present, Legacies of the Past’ (Review of Ishita Banerjee Dube’s, A History of Modern India, Cambridge University Press, 2014), in The Book Review, XXXIX(4), April 2015.
• ‘Education: Social Engineering or Social Process?’ (Review of Krishna Kumar’s Politics of Education in Colonial India, Routledge, 2014), The Book Review, XXXVIII(9), September 2014.
• ‘Communicating History’ (Review of Judith Brown’s Windows into the Past: Life Histories and the Historian of South Asia, Oxford University Press, 2009), The Book Review, XXXVI(3), March 2012.
• ‘Voice of Archival Absence’ (Review of Anjali’s Arondekar’s For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India, Orient BlackSwan, 2009), The Book Review, XXXV(5), May 2011.
• ‘Stocktaking the Nation’s Achievements - A Non-Partisan Enterprise’ (Review of Mukesh Williams and Rohit Wanchoo, Representing India: Cultures, Politics, and Identities, Oxford University Press, 2008) Muse India, 18, March-April 2008. Online.

• Media

  ‘Making Holidays Count’, The Times of India editorial page, 9 November 2007.
• ‘A Concert to Remember’, The Times of India editorial page, 22 July 2001.

• Lecture series titled 'Transition of the Royal Indian Marine to Indian Navy: Milestones and Achievements’ to cadets and officers of the Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala, Kerela, in April and October 2018, and April and October 2019 (via National Knowledge Network NKN Virtual Classroom)
• The 'Floodgates of Mass Agitation': A History of the 'Living Biographies' Controversy (1956)’ at the CEIAS (Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud/ Center for South Asian Studies), Paris, France, 31 May 2018
• ‘Wars over Words: Press Censorship in India in the 1950s’ at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, 28 September 2016
• ‘The Ban Formula: Non-Indian Authors and the Colonial State in the 1920s-30s’, delivered at the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), New Delhi, 25 June 2015
• ‘An Education in Realism: Press Censorship in India in the 1950s’ at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 02 May 2014

National Conferences

• Paper titled ‘A Measure of “Repression” or “Protection”?: The Making of the Press Act of 1931’ presented at the Indian History Congress, New Delhi, 28-30 December 2014
• Paper titled ‘Between the Lines, Beyond the Margins: Confounding Colonial Censorship in Twentieth Century India’ at Exploring the Margins conference, School of Social Sciences, JNU, in September 2009
• Paper titled ‘Censorship in India in the 1950s’ at the Law and Social Sciences Network (Lassnet) Conference in JNU in January 2009
• Paper titled ‘The Censored Turn Censor’ at a conference organized by the History Association, JNU, titled ‘Interrogating Transitions’ in March 2008

International Conferences

• ‘Monument to Transition: A Colonial and Post-Colonial History of India Gate’, at the Historical Monuments and Modern Society Conference, Shanghai University, China, December 2018
• ‘Fact of Fiction: Biographies of Prophet Muhammad in Colonial India’ at the Ways of Knowing Conference, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, October 2018
• ‘Hate Speech or Free Speech?: The Public Sphere and Muslim Identities in Britain and India in the 1920s-1940s’, at the Words that Kill Conference, George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, American University of Paris, France, May 2018
• ‘Alarmist Stories and Defeatist Views: Censorship and Morale in India during the Second World War’, at the 29th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS), Kobe, Japan, September 2016
• ‘Civilian Morale in India during the Second World War’ at the 8th Annual Decolonization Seminar, organized by the American Historical Association and the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, August 2013
• ‘Early Post Colonial Press Censorship in India’ at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany, May 2011
• ‘Women’s Employment in the Indian State’ at the Young South Asia Scholars Meet (Y-SASM), Berlin, Germany, May 2011