My scholarship sits at the intersection of economic and financial history of capitalism, and is driven by an interest in how social networks shape firms, corporations and entrepreneurs in emerging markets such as India. My dissertation—From Bazaar to Corporations: Community in listed Indian joint stock firms (1920s-1970s)—examines how caste- and community-based networks structured entrepreneurship and corporate organization in twentieth-century India. I trained in Economic History, receiving an MSc and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Queen’s University Belfast, respectively.

Before turning to research and writing full-time, I led digital audience engagement for News Corp companies in India, helped establish an early-stage start-up supported by LSE Generate, and wrote long-form narrative stories on political economy, business and enterprise, and culture in South Asia, with a particular focus on caste and capitalism, inequality and institutions, and entrepreneurship.