'Positing Sanyasa and Tyaga as False Dharma: A Critical Study of Lala Lajpat Rai’s ‘The
Message of the Bhagawad Gita’ in 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of
Wisconsin Madison, November 2024.
‘Decolonisation and Global South: Some Foundational Issues in a Promising Project’ at Global
History as Practice, ECR Workshop organised by Global History and Culture Centre,
University of Warwick, 4-5th April, 2023
‘Colonial Difference and the Discourse of Turbulent Punjab: Investigating the Non-Regulation
Status of the Province after its Annexation’ at The Fourth Inter-University Historians’
Colloquium organised by Centre for Research in History, O.P. Jindal Global University on
September 10, 2022.
‘J.F. Stephen And The Contradictions of Liberal Jurisprudence’ at the 2nd Asian Legal History
Conference, hosted by the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, and the Asian Legal History
Association on July 23-24, 2022
‘Colonial Difference and Punjab Exceptionalism: Investigating British Justifications of
Authoritarian Politics’, organised by the Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences
(CASSS) on 27th May 2022.
‘Karl Marx’s Concept of Alienation’ organised by the Department of Political Science, Miranda
House on 25th April 2022.
‘J. F. Stephen and the Emergence of Jurisprudence on Free Speech in India’ at Y-SASM
organised by Graduate Institute of Geneva on 2-4 June 2021
‘Rethinking Indian History and the Idea of Revolution’ at Shyam Lal College, DU on 23 March
2021
‘From War Recruiter to Arch-Seditionist: Evolution of Gandhi’s Ideas on Non-Violent Politics
between 1914 and 1924’ at Department of History, Miranda House, DU on 6 March 2021
‘J. F. Stephen and the Emergence of Colonial Jurisprudence on Free Speech’ at Annual
Conference of South Asia, University of Wisconsin Madison on 19th October 2019
‘Marx on Identity and Discourse of Rights’ at Department of Political Science, Miranda House,
DU on 30 August, 2019
‘British Jurisprudence and Its Application in Colonial India in Eighteenth Century’ at
‘Knowledge, Episteme and Pedagogies in the Long 18th Century’ an Annual Conference
organised by India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS) on 21-22
February, 2019
‘From War Recruiter to Arch-Seditionist: Evolutionist of Gandhi’s Ideas on Politics between
1914 and 1924’ in a National Seminar on ‘Gandhian Thought and Polity: Contemporary
Society’ organised by National Archives of India on 4-5 October, 2018
‘From Peasants to Sovereign: Jat Sikhs and the Social Revolution in the Eighteenth Century’
presented at ‘Identities and Worldviews in the Eighteenth Century’ an Annual Conference
organised by India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS) on 8-9
March 2018.
‘Dayanand Saraswati and the Making of Modern Hinduism in Punjab’ presented at the
Research Scholars Conference organised by the Department of History, University of Delhi,
13th-15th March, 2018
‘From Punjab to America and Back: Ghadar Movement and Integration of Global and Indian
Anti-Colonialism’ presented at ‘Empires: Towards a Global History’ organised by University
of Delhi and Harvard University on 5th December 2017
‘Ghadar Movement after a Century: Study in its History and Historiography’ presented at
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), Delhi on 23rd February 2017
“Martial Law, and its Impact on Politics in Colonial India” presented at the Research Scholars’
Workshop, ‘History Writing: New Themes and Methods,’ held in the Department of History
(DU) on 3rd March 2016
“Evolution of Caste Question in the Nationalist and Revolutionary Discourse of Early 20th
Century Punjab” presented at National Seminar on “Caste and Gender: Historical Perspectives”
sponsored by UGC and ICHR at Department of Social Work, DU on 19-20th February, 2016
“The Enigmatic Relationship between Lajpat Rai and Militant Nationalists of early 20th
Century Punjab,” presented at Conference on the 150th Birth Anniversary of Lajpat Rai at
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) on 30th December 2015
“Was Bhagat Singh a Terrorist? Origin of the Term ‘Terrorism’ in Colonial North India, 1900-
1930,” presented at the Research Scholars Workshop at the Department of History, University
of Delhi on 30th April 2014
“Inventing ‘Terrorism’ in Colonial India: Attempts at Establishing the Colonial Sovereignty
and Legitimate Politics” presented at the Seventy Fifth Session of the Indian History Congress
at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 28-30 December, 2014.
