Essays & Notebook
Public writing
Occasional essays on the archive, arid ecologies, and the long shadow of caste — written between the archive and the classroom.
- May 2026
What a Land Grant Remembers
A single 1743 sanad from Jodhpur, and the century of quarrels it set off.
12 min read - February 2026
The Weight of Water in Marwar
Why stepwells are a better archive of caste than any village survey ever was.
9 min read - October 2025
After the Line: Ecology across the Thar
Partition drew a border; the desert kept its own accounts.
15 min read - June 2025
Teaching Commodity History in a Warming World
Notes from a seminar that started with indigo and ended with lithium.
7 min read