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I am a historian of modern South Asia and global history. Currently I am Associate Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University. I received a PhD from Emory University, and a BA from the University of Toronto. My research explores questions of agrarian change, caste politics, Panjabi and Sikh history, postcolonial critique and global capitalism.
My first book, Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. A South Asia edition came out with Navayana in 2025. The book examines the history of landholding peasants and landless laborers and their implications for a new form of capitalist hierarchy in colonial India and the globe. It won the Henry A. Wallace Award from the Agricultural History Society and the Global Development Studies' Book Prize from the International Studies Association. The book can be purchased directly from the publishers' websites: Stanford (US/Canada/Europe) and Navayana (South Asia). Use the code "GILL20" for a twenty percent discount from Stanford. My second book is on debt and the political economy of ethics. It charts how certain ties of financial domination and dependence infiltrated peoples’ lives over several generations in colonial India and across the British Empire. My scholarly and public writings have appeared in venues such as Past and Present, the Journal of Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Outlook, Al Jazeera, Scroll, Wire, the Law and Political Economy Project, Borderlines and Trolley Times. |
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