Academic and Public Writings

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Books

Articles

  • 2025. “Ethical listening within a culture of difference,” Anthropology and Humanism 00(0): e70040. View
  • 2025. “Seeking antassu: The making of a Muslim barber in South India,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 15 (1): 45-58. View
  • 2022. “Beyond the normative: Ambiguity in the making of a South Indian sufi,” American Anthropologist 124 (2): 319-332. View
  •  2017. “Muslim social organisation and cultural Islamisation in Malabar,” South Asia Research 37 (1): 19-36. View

Chapters

  • Accepted. ‘Genealogy, Piety and Status of Sayyids among Muslims’. In Caste and Social Stratification among Muslims and Christians in India, edited by Sarbeswar Sahoo and Muhammad Haneefa.

EDITOR-REVIEWED

  • 2019. Book review: Difference and sameness as modes of integration: anthropological perspectives on ethnicity and religion (edited by Günther Schlee and Alexander Horstmann). Social Anthropology, pp. 131-133. New York: Berghahn Books. View
  • 2017. “Status Claims among Muslims in Malabar, South India.” Anthropological Notebooks 23 (2): 103-105. View

PRINT AND ONLINE WRITING

  • 2024. “കോയപ്പാപ്പ: ഭ്രാന്തില്‍ നിന്ന് വിശുദ്ധതയിലേക്കുള്ള വഴിദൂരങ്ങള്‍,” Thelicham Monthly 26 (10): 14-21.
  • 2023. “Remembering Imtiaz Ahmad: Scholar who Questioned the Idea of Muslims as a Monolith,” The News Minute, 22 June.
  • 2019. “Canadian Trajectories of Kerala Studies: Interview with Robin Jeffrey,” (Malayalam), Mathrubhumi Weekly, November 3: 30-39.
  • 2016. “A JNU Student on Why The Politics on Campus Needs to Change,” Youth ki Awaaz, 19 June.
  • 2015. “Of Housing Jobs and Everyday Communalism,” Kafila Online, 05 August.