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I am a historian specializing in 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, labor politics, caste hierarchy, 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" for the best book on any aspect of agricultural history outside the US by the Agricultural History Society. 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. Click to read the Introduction and Table of Contents. 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, the Law and Political Economy Project, Borderlines and Trolley Times. |
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