
“Fatima Begum: An Indian Haji Observes Her Fellow Pilgrims” and “Mehr al-Nisa: An Indian Nurse in Ohio,” in Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma, eds., Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women (Indiana University Press, 2022)
“Nationality and Fashionality: Hats, Lawyers and Other Important Things to Remember,” South Asia 43, no. 5 (October 2020), reprinted in Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia, ed. Charu Gupta et al. (Routledge, 2021)
“Bound for Home: Books and Community in a Bihari Qasba,” South Asia 43, no. 3 (June 2020)
“Unpacking the Library” (coauthored with Andrew Amstutz and C. Ryan Perkins), South Asia 43, no. 3 (June 2020)
“Collaborative Wit: Provincial Publics in Colonial North India,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38, no. 1 (May 2018)
My writing for the public includes:
“अंजुमनुल इस्लाह: जब एक क़स्बे में उर्दू को सहेजने की कोशिश हुई,” The Wire Hindi, July 2, 2020
“قصہ 1899 کے ایک مشرقی کتب خانہ کا,” The Wire Urdu, June 25, 2020
“Home in the Hinterland,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, October 2014
“A Lettered Life,” The Caravan, August 2012
“Calcutta in 20 Hours,” Kosovo 2.0, May 2012