Assistant Professor (2006)

Modern South Asia

Office Hours: Tues and Thurs 3:45-4:45 and by appointment

Office: 218 Randall

Phone: 434) 924-6417

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: nn2vvirginia.edu

Education 

B.A. – St Stephen’s College, Delhi University, 1998
M.A. – Tufts University, 2000
Ph.D. – Tufts University, 2005

Publications

Between Homeland and Nation: Punjabi Hindus and the Making of Modern India, 1907-1947 under contract with Permanent Black (for South Asia).

‘Bhagat Singh as ‘satyagrahi’: the limits to non-violence in late colonial India’, Modern Asian Studies, web published, April 2008.

‘Hindu Mahasabha’, ‘Lala Lajpat Rai’, ‘Pt Madan Mohan Malaviya’, ‘Punjabi Hindus’, ‘Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’, ‘Sanatan Dharm’, ‘Sangathan/ Shuddhi’, ‘Swami Shraddhanand’, Encyclopedia entries in Ayesha Jalal ed., Oxford Companion to Pakistani History, Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

‘“We Left our Keys with our Neighbors”: Memory and the Search for Meaning in post-Partitioned India,’ Rosemarie Rogers Working Paper # 29, The Inter-University Committee on International Migration, MIT, November 2004.

Book Reviews

Stanley Wolpert, Shameful Flight: the last years of the British Empire in India, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, Journal of British Studies, 47, 2, April 2008.

Reeta Grewal and Sheena Pall eds., Precolonial and Colonial Punjab: Society, Economy, Politics and Culture, Essays for Indu Banga, New Delhi: Manohar, 2005, Journal of Asian Studies, 66, 2, May 2007.

Geeti Sen ed., India: A National Culture?, Delhi: Sage and India International Centre 2003, Contemporary South Asia, Volume 14, No 1, March 2005.

Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya eds., The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia, Delhi and New York: Routledge, 2000, Seminar, February 2004.

Grants and Awards

Research support in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Virginia, 2008.  

Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia, 2007, 2008.

Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Virginia, May 2006 - January 2007.

Mellon-MIT Inter-University Program on International Migrations, 2002-2003.

Taraknath Das Foundation, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2002.

Research Grant, Department of History, Tufts University, 2002.

Certificate for Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University, 2002.

Summer Language Training Fellowship, Center for South West Asia and Islamic Civilizations, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2001.

Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tufts University, 2001.

Current Research

I am revising my dissertation on the politics of Punjabi Hindus for publication.