Publications and Research
ACADEMIC
Muslim Capitalism: A legal and political history of colonial Bombay (Cambridge University Press forthcoming). CUP
'Partners in Empire: Indigenous business, imperial technology, and the Indian Radio Telegraph Company.' The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 62(4), 507-524.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646251386192
'The Politics of Business: The Congress Ministry and the Muslim League in Bombay, 1937–39', in Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer (eds), Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Feb. 2020)
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190061708.003.0014
“Muslim Merchants and Migration.” Review of No Birds of Passage. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. LX, no. 32 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i32.43247
Ruhi Khan and Danish Khan, "From Romeo to Rambo: Popular Portrayals of Journalists in Bollywood Cinema," The IJPC Journal [Online], Volume 4 - Fall 2012 - Spring 2013: pp. 109-131.
http://ijpc.uscannenberg.org/journal/index.php/ijpcjournal/article/view/38/63
Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London (Penguin, 2021)
A narrative history of India-UK extradition cases over the last 70 years
Two letters from JRD Tata show how India's elite expressed dissent - and how it was treated, Scroll (January 2026)
History: Traders who bent Empire, Dawn (August 2025)
The Chinoys and the making of cosmopolitan capitalism, Wire (November 2025)
Defiance to exemption: A history of the Bohra community's resistance to waqf law, Scroll (April 2025)
Captains of Industry who fought for our freedom to do business, MoneyControl (August 2023)
An ambitious property development in London provides link to 19th century Bombay, MoneyControl (Jan 2022)
Why weaker countries remain at the mercy of the West, Times of India (September 2021)
The Making of a modern Bohra saint in colonial Bombay
53rd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Oct 2025.
Islamic and secular charity laws: A background to Waqf legislation in India
Roosevelt University, Chicago, October 2025
Making a deity of the Mullah
ECSAS, University of Heidelberg, October 2025
Trade to Manufacture: Gujarati Muslim Merchants in Colonial Bombay
Indian Ocean Seminar Series, 28 October 2024 (online) www.ioaeseminar.com
The Muslim ‘outsider’: Identity negotiation and risk management in colonial India
Seeing Muslimness Conference, University of Cambridge, 27 June, 2024
Waqf and Capital Accumulation in Colonial India
Presented at The Many Lives of Money: Exploring Familial, Social and Political Relationships in South Asia, Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 7 June 2023
Khilafat Movement in Bombay: The Crisis Between Capital and Pan-Islamism
Presented online at Exploring the Concept of Crisis in Modern Western India, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, 13–16 January 2022
How Marconi’s Beam Wireless Was Brought to India
Submitted for the Global History of Capitalism Project, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, November 2020
Three Models of Decline: Muslim Capitalists in Colonial Bombay
Presented at the International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, 29–31 August 2019
Nation-State and Minority Sects: Muslim Merchants During India’s Partition
Presented at Nation and Minority, Sovereignty and Secession, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 23–24 November 2018
'Un-democratic' Representations of Democracy: Political Economy and the Media in India
Co-presented at the IJPP Conference, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 28–29 September 2017
Muslim League, Congress and the Politics of Business in Bombay City (1937–39)
Presented at Power, Public Culture and Identity: Towards New Histories of Mumbai, University of Mumbai, 6–7 January 2017
Bombay Municipal Franchise and Elites
Presented at Urban South Asia, 1850–Present, University of Oxford, 2 October 2014
The Different Trajectories of Jamaat-e-Islami in India and Pakistan: Ideological ‘Compromises’ and the ‘Violence’ of Their Student Bodies
Muslim Capitalism: A legal and political history of colonial Bombay (Cambridge University Press forthcoming). CUP
'Partners in Empire: Indigenous business, imperial technology, and the Indian Radio Telegraph Company.' The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 62(4), 507-524.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646251386192
'The Politics of Business: The Congress Ministry and the Muslim League in Bombay, 1937–39', in Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer (eds), Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos (2019; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Feb. 2020)
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190061708.003.0014
“Muslim Merchants and Migration.” Review of No Birds of Passage. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. LX, no. 32 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i32.43247
Ruhi Khan and Danish Khan, "From Romeo to Rambo: Popular Portrayals of Journalists in Bollywood Cinema," The IJPC Journal [Online], Volume 4 - Fall 2012 - Spring 2013: pp. 109-131.
http://ijpc.uscannenberg.org/journal/index.php/ijpcjournal/article/view/38/63
Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London (Penguin, 2021)
A narrative history of India-UK extradition cases over the last 70 years
Beyond Conspiracy: The Aga Khan Network, Khoja history and a global tradition of Philanthropy - A Rejoinder BusinessWorld (May 2026)
Two letters from JRD Tata show how India's elite expressed dissent - and how it was treated, Scroll (January 2026)
History: Traders who bent Empire, Dawn (August 2025)
The Chinoys and the making of cosmopolitan capitalism, Wire (November 2025)
Defiance to exemption: A history of the Bohra community's resistance to waqf law, Scroll (April 2025)
Captains of Industry who fought for our freedom to do business, MoneyControl (August 2023)
An ambitious property development in London provides link to 19th century Bombay, MoneyControl (Jan 2022)
Why weaker countries remain at the mercy of the West, Times of India (September 2021)
The Making of a modern Bohra saint in colonial Bombay
53rd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Oct 2025.
Islamic and secular charity laws: A background to Waqf legislation in India
Roosevelt University, Chicago, October 2025
Making a deity of the Mullah
ECSAS, University of Heidelberg, October 2025
Trade to Manufacture: Gujarati Muslim Merchants in Colonial Bombay
Indian Ocean Seminar Series, 28 October 2024 (online) www.ioaeseminar.com
The Muslim ‘outsider’: Identity negotiation and risk management in colonial India
Seeing Muslimness Conference, University of Cambridge, 27 June, 2024
Waqf and Capital Accumulation in Colonial India
Presented at The Many Lives of Money: Exploring Familial, Social and Political Relationships in South Asia, Queen Elizabeth House, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 7 June 2023
Khilafat Movement in Bombay: The Crisis Between Capital and Pan-Islamism
Presented online at Exploring the Concept of Crisis in Modern Western India, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, 13–16 January 2022
How Marconi’s Beam Wireless Was Brought to India
Submitted for the Global History of Capitalism Project, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, November 2020
Three Models of Decline: Muslim Capitalists in Colonial Bombay
Presented at the International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, 29–31 August 2019
Nation-State and Minority Sects: Muslim Merchants During India’s Partition
Presented at Nation and Minority, Sovereignty and Secession, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 23–24 November 2018
'Un-democratic' Representations of Democracy: Political Economy and the Media in India
Co-presented at the IJPP Conference, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 28–29 September 2017
Muslim League, Congress and the Politics of Business in Bombay City (1937–39)
Presented at Power, Public Culture and Identity: Towards New Histories of Mumbai, University of Mumbai, 6–7 January 2017
Bombay Municipal Franchise and Elites
Presented at Urban South Asia, 1850–Present, University of Oxford, 2 October 2014
The Different Trajectories of Jamaat-e-Islami in India and Pakistan: Ideological ‘Compromises’ and the ‘Violence’ of Their Student Bodies
Presented at the MUSA Conference, SOAS University of London, 28 October 2013
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