Book
Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand's Fiction in Colonial North India, London: Routledge [Taylor and Francis], 2024 [International Edition].
Between Resistance and Conformity: Premchand's Fiction in Colonial North India, New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2022 [South Asian Edition].
Journal Articles
Premchand's Prose of Counter-Insurgency in Colonial North India, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies [Taylor and Francis], 2016, 39(1): 29-46. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2016.1122561
Premchand, Nationalism, and Civil Resistance in Colonial North India, The Indian Economic & Social History Review [Sage], 2019, 56(2): 171-94. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019464619835663
Premchand's Shifting Portrayals of Womanhood in Colonial North India: Between Conformity and Resistance, Contributions to Indian Sociology [Sage], 2020, 54(3): 414-39. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0069966720947540
De-Stigmatization of the Fat Female Body in Size Zero and Dum Laga ke Haisha, Fat Studies [Taylor and Francis], 2018, 7(3): 247-63. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2018.1424411
Fatness, Girlhood, and Self-Acceptance in Gippi and Fanney Khan, Fat Studies [Taylor and Francis], 2022, 11(1): 83-97. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2021.1879511
Conning the Conmen: Intelligence and Female Desire in Dedh Ishqiya, Journal of Lesbian Studies [Taylor and Francis], 2018, 22(1): 116-25. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10894160.2017.1310540
Lesbian Longings and the Question of a Queer Repertoire in The 'Other' Love Story, Journal of Lesbian Studies [Taylor and Francis], 2023, 27(2): 160-75. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10894160.2022.2119673
Desecration of the Fat Brahman in Select Fiction of Premchand, Fat Studies [Taylor and Francis], 2025, 14(1): 37-52. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2025.2476840
Female Pleasure and the Gender Politics of 'Girliyapa', Girlhood Studies [Berghahn Journals, New York City, US], 2021, 14(3): 55-71. https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2021.140305
Rewriting Purushartha: Masculinity, Gendered Violence, and Patriarchal Control in Yashpal's Jhutha Sach, Social Change [Sage], 2023, 53(3): 301-15. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00490857231187877
What Awakens the Nation? The Figure of the Revolutionary in Inquilaab, Krantiveer, and Rang de Basanti, South Asian Popular Culture [Taylor and Francis], 2018, 16(1): 89-100. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746689.2018.1500191
Disintegration of the Moral Economy in Gopinath Mohanty's Paraja, History and Sociology of South Asia [Sage], 2017, 11(2): 101-16. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2230807517696550
Interrogating Stigma: Menstrual Management and Maternal Masculinity in R. Balki's Padman, Women's Reproductive Health [Taylor and Francis], 2019, 6(2): 118-27. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23293691.2019.1601906
Satire, Masculinity, and the Rhetoric of Conflict Resolution in War Chhod Na Yaar and Kya Dilli Kya Lahore, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film [Intellect Journals, Bristol, UK], 2020, 17(2): 151-62. https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin_00014_1
Book Chapters [University Press]
Unjust Gradations of Fairness: Gender, Looks, and Colorism in Post-Millennial Hindi Cinema, in Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg (eds), Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Cinema, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, pp. 149-61.
Fetishism, Scopophilia, and the Fat Actresses of Bhojpuri Cinema, in Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg (eds), Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Cinema, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, pp. 162-79.
Book Chapters
Incarcerated Lives, Thwarted Desires: Masculinity, Modernity, and the War in Midaq Alley, in Srirupa Chatterjee and Sharada Chigurupati (eds), Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India, New York, London: Routledge, 2025, pp. 108-18. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032635507-12
Family, Ambition, and Girlhood in Post-Millennial South Asian Cinema, in Sharon R. Mazzarella (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies, New York, London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 236-45. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367821890-23
Demystifying the Sanctity of the Village Council: 'Ghareeb ki Haye' as a Counter-Narrative to 'Panch Parmeshwar', in M. Asaduddin (ed.), Premchand in World Languages: Translation, Reception, and Cinematic Representations, New Delhi: Routledge, 2016, pp. 258-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315616698-25
Book Review [University Press]
Review of Affective Disorders: Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Bede Scott, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry [Cambridge University Press], 2021, 8(3): 425-27.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-journal-of-postcolonial-literary-inquiry/article/abs/affective-disorders-emotion-in-colonial-and-postcolonial-literature-by-bede-scott-liverpool-university-press-2019-190-pp/7EE0D2DC7E5BC929AD92004081B6C1F0
Book Reviews
Review of Bollywood's New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies, edited by Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, Gender, Place & Culture [Taylor and Francis], 2024, 31(2): 259-62. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2023.2199521
Review of Exploring Digital Humanities in India: Pedagogies, Practices, and Institutional Possibilities, edited by Maya Dodd and Nidhi Kalra, Information, Communication & Society [Taylor and Francis], 2023, 26(7): 1492-93. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2055486
Review of Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema by Ulka Anjaria, South Asian History and Culture [Taylor and Francis], 2023, 14(1): 112-14. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19472498.2022.2036404
Review of Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India by Raminder Kaur and Saif Eqbal, Journal of Postcolonial Writing [Taylor and Francis], 2021, 57(6): 901-02. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2021.1940024
Review of Visuality and Identity in Post-Millennial Indian Graphic Narratives by E. Dawson Varughese, Journal of Postcolonial Writing [Taylor and Francis], 2020, 56(6): 874-75. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2020.1786957
Review of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice, and Text by Kama Maclean, Contemporary South Asia [Taylor and Francis], 2017, 25(1): 107-08. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09584935.2017.1307586
Translations
Translation of 'Devi', in M. Asaduddin (ed.), Stories on Women by Premchand, New Delhi: Penguin, 2018.
Translation of 'Tagaada', in M. Asaduddin (ed.), Stories on the City by Premchand, New Delhi: Penguin, 2018.
Translation of 'Swatva-Raksha', in M. Asaduddin (ed.), Stories on Animals by Premchand, New Delhi: Penguin, 2018.