Publications

Books: 

The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector.

London, New Delhi: Routledge/Manohar, 2023. 

Chapter one is free open access. 

Illustrating India: The Early Colonial Investigations of Colin Mackenzie.

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India.

London: Routledge, 2003. 

Articles and Book Chapters: 

"Twin Statues of Robert Clive and the Long History of Imperial Narratives in London and Calcutta." Co-authored with Jayanta Sengupta. Chapter 9 in Irish, John & Lyons (editors), Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments. Bloomsbury, 2026. 

"Days of the Raj." In N & R Batra, The Inner Eye: The Story of an Unfinished Journey. The Batra Family Collection. Great Banyan Art, 2026.

"The travelling female performer: mobility and agency in and beyond South Asia, 1760-1940." Co-authored with Radha Kapuria and Shweta Sachdeva Jha. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 36(2), 2026.

"Decolonising the Rescue Narrative: Antiquarian Usage of Amaravati Sculptures in the British Museum." South Asian Studies, 42(1), 2026. 

"Tipu Sultan's Female Entourage under East India Company Rule." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 31(4), pp.855-874. 2021. 

“The Storytellers of Mysore: Regime Change and the Musarrarti  Performance Artists of Tipu Sultan’s Court.” In Hegewald, Julia (editor) Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms: Artistic communities and patronage in Asia. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.

"Colin Mackenzie with his three Indian Assistants." The British Art Journal (Vol.20, #2), pp. 53-57. 2019. 

"Illustrated Jaina Collections in the British Library.” In Hegewald, Julia (editor) Jaina Painting and Manuscript Culture. Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2015. 

"Indian Company School Art from 1780 to 1820: Collecting Versus Documentation." In Hegewald, Julia (editor) In the Shadow of the Golden Age. Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2014. 

"A Colonial History of Sculptures from the Amaravati Stupa." In J. Hawkes and A. Shimada (editors) Buddhist Stupas in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. 

"Colin Mackenzie, the Madras School of Orientalism, and Investigations at Mahabalipuram." In Thomas Trautmann (editor) The Madras School of Orientalism: Producing Colonial Knowledge in Colonial South India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. 

Exhibition Catalogues: 

"A Mystery is Solved." In Iconic Masters of Indian Art, Edition 5. New Delhi: DAG, 2025.

"Company Paintings from Pondicherry." In Tillotson, Giles (editor) A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings c.1790-1835.  New Delhi: DAG, 2025.  The largest ever exhibition of Company Paintings to be held in India!

"The 'Peculiar Sanctity' of the Waterfall at Kuttalam." In Iconic Masters of Indian Art, Edition 4. New Delhi: DAG, 2024.

“Mahabalipuram, Then and Now.” In Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Art, Edition 3. New Delhi, New York: DAG, 2023.

"The Women of Tipu Sultan's Court."  In Tillotson, Giles (editor) Tipu Sultan: Image and Distance. New Delhi, New York: DAG, 2022. 

"Life by the Ganga." In Singh, Kishore (editor) Iconic Masterpieces of Indian Art, Edition 2. New Delhi: DAG, 2022.

"The British Library." In Ellis, Lucy (editor) Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden, Volume II. London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013.