About me

Welcome to my website.

I am a literary and cultural historian interested in how visual culture, life-writing and literature respond to war. I am currently Lecturer in Public History at City, University of London, and was previously Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Royal Historical Society and the Institute of Historical Research.

My first book, India in the Second World War: An Emotional History, was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in May 2023. I am developing my current research project on the 1943 Bengal Famine, empathy and the future of food.

I have worked for over 15 years as a freelance writer, and been published in leading Indian and British newspapers and magazines, and online. These include BBC History magazine, History Today, the Guardian, theWire.in,  and The Telegraph (India).

If you would like to find out more about India and the Second World War, or the 1943 Bengal Famine, please get in touch here.