Education CV
I study the history and political economy of international law through the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960. I investigate the contradictions of postcolonial self-determination, and the relationship between (public) international law, economics, and politics in the 20th century.
I am pursuing my PhD as a Gates Cambridge scholar. My work appears in the Leiden Journal of International Law, and has previously been published in journals spanning political theory, history, and international law.
I previously completed my LLM from Melbourne Law School as an Alex Chernov scholar, and my BALLB (Hons) from Jindal Law School as a Savitri Jindal scholar.
Fields of research
History of International Law; South Asia; Political Economy; Global History
Research centres and interest groups
Indus Waters Treaty, 1960: Contradictions of Postcolonial Self-determination in Kashmir
Supervisors
Professor Surabhi Ranganathan
Representative Publications
Journal Articles
- "Engineering Kashmir's Erasure: David Lilienthal and the Forgotten Pre-History of the Indus Waters Treaty (1948-51)" – Journal of the History of International Law (Accepted for publication, forthcoming).
- “Caste Discrimination, International Human Rights and Hinduism” – Leiden Journal of International Law (2025), doi:10.1017/S0922156525000020
- “A Month Under Occupation: The State against Society” – Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 19(3) (2019) 346-60
- “Silent Narrative: Bringing Srinagar to New Delhi” – Public History Review 25 (2018) 17-27.
- “Red Corridor: ‘Biggest Internal Security Threat’ or Non-International Armed Conflict?” – Socio-Legal Review 14(2) (2018) 213-27.
Public Writing
- "The Indus Waters Treaty 'in abeyance,'" EJIL: Talk!.
- “Indian Supreme Court waters down legislation protecting Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from unlawful discrimination,” Oxford Human Rights Hub.
- "In India’s Citizenship Act, an eerie echo of Nazi Germany’s claims to protect ‘racial comrades,'” Scroll.in.
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