Sarath Pillai, PhD, MSL
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania, USAPhD in History (distinction), University of Chicago, USA
Master of Studies in Law, Yale Law School, Yale University, USA
Areas of Research
I work on the history of 20th c India with a special focus on the history of Indian princely states and federalism. My work generally stands at the intersection of intellectual, legal, global/comparative, and postcolonial histories. You can read more about me here: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/sarath-pillai
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For potential advisees: I have a strong interest in the political, legal, intellectual, and global history of Modern South Asia (18th to 21st centuries). I especially welcome MA students seeking to work on topics like colonialism/empire, Indian princely states, nationalism and anti-colonialism, legal and constitutional history, history of ideas, state-formation, global or comparative histories of South Asia, and postcolonial history. The ability to situate research within existing scholarship (this requires a good familiarity with historiography and important debates in the field) would be helpful, as are preliminary thoughts on two or three major archival repositories (physical or digital archives) where the candidate wishes to undertake research.
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