Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Winner of the 2023 Karwaan Book Award!
South Asia edition available from Sanctum Books (2025)
Read the Introduction on the publisher's website.
Reviews: Publisher's Weekly, Reading Religion, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Journal of Islamic Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of Church and State, American Historical Review
Other Publicity: New Books in Islamic Studies Podcast, Islamicate Book Reviews
“To Flower and Fructify: Rational religion and the seeds of Islam in Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) late-career religious non-fiction,” Journal of Islamic Studies 31.1 (2020): 31–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etz032.
“From Documents to Data Points: Marriage Registration and the Politics of Record-Keeping in British India (1880–1950),” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62.5–6 (2019): 998–1045. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341499.
“Writing Law at the Edge of Empire: Evidence from the Qazis of Bharuch (1799–1864),” Itinerario 42.2 (August 2018): 256–78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115318000347.
"Colonialism and Muslim Personal Law in South Asia," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (January 22, 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.811.
Guest Essays, Islamic Law Blog, https://islamiclaw.blog/, March 2023
“Breaking out of ‘Anglo-Muslim’ hybrids, or the case for studying the princely states” (March 2, 2023)
“Raftār-i Taraqqī-yi ʿAdālat: Rethinking ‘progress’ in the history of Hyderabad’s Āṣafī Courts” (March 9, 2023)
“Farāmīn-i Niẓāmat: Looking at legal layers in a royal decree” (March 16, 2023)
“Naql-i Rejisṫarḋ khaṭ: Letters, postcards, and telegrams as sources of law” (March 23, 2023)
“Dekan Lā Ripōrṫ: Familiar genres, unfamiliar stories” (March 28, 2023)
“Conclusion: Why the princely states? Why now? What’s next?” (March 30, 2023)
Review of God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State, by Nada Moumtaz, Islamic Law and Society, 30 (1–2) (January 2023):162-169. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685195-bja10037.
Review of Negotiating Mughal law: a family of landlords across three Indian empires, by Nandini Chatterjee, Comparative Legal History, 10 (2) (October 12, 2022): 221-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2022.2131535.
“Of Horizontal Exchanges and Inter-Islamic Inquiries. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 41 (2) (2021): 257–261. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9127180.
“Political Cartooning, 1870s–Present (India),” In Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, John Downing, Ed. (California: Sage Publications, 2010): 405–6.
2020–21. Digital Scholarship Grant, “Indian Princely States Online Legal History Archive (IPSOLHA),” American Institute of Indian Studies.
2020–21. Venture Funding Grant, “A Moral Hazard? Risk, Religion, and Modern Finance in the Indian Ocean World, 1850–1950,” Dartmouth College Society of Fellows.
2023. Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies.
2023, Spring. Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies (declined).
2018–2019. Fellow, Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, American Society for Legal History.
2017. Fellow, Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, Madison, WI.
2016–2017. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies.
2016. Dissertation Year Fellowship, Franke Institute for the Humanities (declined).
2016. Dissertation Fellowship, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, University of Chicago.
2016. Research Fellowship, Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago.
2014–2015. International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council.
2014. Junior Long-term Research Fellowship, American Institute of Pakistan Studies.
2014. Research Fellowship, Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago.
2014. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (Arabic), University of Chicago.
2013. Critical Language Enhancement Award (Urdu), United States–India Education Foundation.
2012–2013. Fulbright–Nehru Student Research Fellowship, India.