Research and Publications

Book:

Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

Edited Volume: 

Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Political Writings, ed. Nazmul Sultan, trans. Brian Hatcher and Thomas Newbold (under contract with Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 

Articles and book chapters: 

• “What is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category,” American Political Science Review (forthcoming); FirstView: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000388 
• “Moral Empire and the Global Meaning of Gandhi’s Anti-Imperialism,” Review of Politics 84, no. 4 (2022): 545-569. 
• “Between the Many and the One: Anticolonial Federalism and Popular Sovereignty,” Political Theory 50, no. 2 (2022): 247-274.
• “Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India,” American Political Science Review 114, no. 1 (2020): 81-94. 
• “Independence, Freedom, Liberation: The Promise of Bangladesh’s Founding,” Economic and Political Weekly LVI, no. 44 (2021): 40-46 [PDF here]
• “Constituent Power in India: Authorization and Transformation,” Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power, eds. Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg, Lucia Rubinelli (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) 
• “The Liberal Rammohun Roy: A History of Indian Intellectual History,” The Cambridge Companion to Rammohun Roy eds. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rosinka Chaudhuri, and Tanika Sarkar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)