Books                          

India in the Second World War: An Emotional History (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2023)

Shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s 2024 Gladstone Prize. This is one of the most prestigious prizes in History in the UK for a first book.

“Excellent.
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— Kavita Puri, BBC History Magazine
“‘An excellent book, innovative, well-constructed, and superbly written.”
— Asian Affairs
“Compelling … no other approach could show the personal interiority of the war in such a unique way.”
— American Historical Review
“A departure from the trodden path. ”
— Hindustan Times



Articles

with Anna Maguire, ‘Teaching empire and war: Opening up the wartime British Empire to teachers and students’, History Workshop Journal, 92 (Autumn 2021), 208-225

‘Bodies in hunger: literary representations of the Indian home-front during World War II’, Journal of War and Culture Studies, 13.2 (2020), 196–214 (won the journal’s 2020 Early Career Researcher’s award)

‘The Raj in radio wars: BBC Monitoring reports on broadcasts for Indian audiences during the Second World War’, Media History 25.4 (July 2019), 414–429

Chapters

Docile bodies? Reflections on a recruitment photograph from India during the Second World War’, in Ferris, K. and Halstead, H., eds., Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, forthcoming 2025)

‘Power and the Colonial Archive’ in Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives (Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2024)

‘Analysing Imperialism through Colonial Photography’ in Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives (Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2024)

Essays                        

with Bárbara Gallego Larrarte, ‘Exploring intersections between creative and critical writing: the interview’, in Gail Marshall and Robert Eaglestone eds., English: Shared Futures, English Association’s ‘Essays and Studies’ series, Vol 71, pp. 136–143 (Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer, 2018)

Reviews for academic publications                      

Review of Vivienne Guo's Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders (2019) for the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/post/book-review-women-and-politics-in-wartime-china-networking-across-geopolitical-borders-by-vivienne (2024)

‘A memoir’s exploration of love and loss’, Women: A Cultural Review (2023). Review of Lyn Innes’s The Last Prince of Bengal (2021)

‘War through the eyes of the colonized’, Patterns of Prejudice (2021). Review of Ghee Bowman’s The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk (2020)