Journal Articles12
- Accepted“Separation as Muse: Love and Longing in Modern Bengali Poetry.” South Asian History and Culture.
- 2026“Re/Turning to Tagore in Our Times: Considerations on a Resource of Hope.” positions: asia critique 34, no. 2 (2026): 257–75.
- 2025“Politics and Aesthetics in the Realm of Hunger.” In “Of Deaths, Disease, and Empire: A Forum on Mike Davis’s Late-Victorian Holocausts.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 4, no. 1 (2025): 19–26.
- 2025“Introduction” to “Of Deaths, Disease, and Empire: A Forum on Mike Davis’s Late-Victorian Holocausts.” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies 4, no. 1 (2025): 17–18.
- 2024“Forms of Translation, Translation of Forms: From Maxim Gorky’s Mother to Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084.” Comparative Literature Studies 61, no. 2 (2024): 306–34.
- 2022“World Literature, the Text, and the Critic: Re-reading The Country and the City, Re-situating Raymond Williams.” Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism 20 (2022): 19–39.
- 2022“Cognitive Maps of the Semi-Periphery: Two Bengali Novels and the Transition to Colonial Capitalist Modernity.” Modern Fiction Studies 68, no. 1 (2022): 43–63.
- 2022“Gestures of Refusal: Utopian Longings in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne.” Utopian Studies 30, no. 3 (2022): 257–73.
- 2017“Beyond the Intimations of Mortality: Chakrabarty, Anthropocene, and the Politics of the (Im)Possible.” Mediations 30, no. 2 (2017): 1–14.
- 2015“‘Why, This is (Not Quite) London!’: The Spectre of Kipling in Contemporary Kolkata.” Critical Imprints 3 (2015): 1–21.
- 2015“Secularising the Sacred, Imagining the Nation-Space: The Himalaya in Bengali Travelogues, 1856–1901.” Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 3 (2015): 609–49.Co-authored with Subho Basu.
- 2014“‘Not altogether Unpicturesque’: Samuel Bourne and the Landscaping of the Victorian Himalaya.” Victorian Literature and Culture 42 (2014): 351–68.
- In progress“Talking to a Cloud: Tagore’s ‘Meghdūt’ and the Braiding of Traditions.”
Chapters in Books6
- 2026“Of Borders and Bordering: The Colonial Himalaya as a Liminal Space.” In India at the Limits: Inquiries at the Limit Zones of an Idea, ed. Atreyee Majumder. Bloomsbury. Forthcoming, November 2026.
- 2025“The Imperial Romance: Colonialism in Ritual Form.” In The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire, ed. Auritro Majumder, 174–86. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- 2025“Empire, Nation, and the Question of Space.” In Space and Literary Studies, ed. Elizabeth Evans, 140–55. Cambridge University Press, 2025.Co-authored with Atreyee Majumder.
- 2015“The City as Nation: Delhi as the Indian Nation in Bengali bhadralok Travelogues, 1866–1910.” In Cities in South Asia, eds. Crispin Bates and Minoru Mio, 125–42. Routledge, 2015.Co-authored with Subho Basu.
- 2015“A Brief History of South Asia.” In South Asia in the World: An Introduction, ed. Susan S. Wadley, 22–65. M. E. Sharpe, 2015.Co-authored with Subho Basu, Susan Wadley, and Stephen Christopher.
- 2012“Raymond Williams: Materialist Approach to Culture, Literature, Media and Politics.” In Modern Social Thinkers, ed. Pradip Basu, 319–36. Setu Prakashani, 2012.
- In progress“Introduction” to Three Diaries of Nain Singh Rawat: Journey to Lhasa, 1865–66; Thok Jyalung Diary, 1867; Yārkand–Khotān Diary, 1873–74. Translated by Niharika Gupta.
Reference Essays2
- 2025“Utopia and South Asian Postcolonial Fiction.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, ed. Deidre Lynch. Oxford University Press, 2025.By invitation.
- 2023“British Colonialism and Imperialism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, ed. Tracy Coleman. Oxford University Press, 2023.Introduction, notes, and 115 annotated entries. Co-authored with Atreyee Majumder.