Books
The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata. New York: Oxford University Press. 2018.
Reviews of this book:
- Reviews in Religion & Theology 30(1-2) Jan-April 2023: 75-77.
- The International Journal of Hindu Studies 26(2) July 2022: 268-9.
- Religious Studies Review 48 (2) June 2022: 288.
- Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 51(1) March 2022: 106-108.
- The Journal of Asian Studies 80(2) May 2021: 503-6.
- Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society 1(1) 2020: 107-109.
- Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies 4(1) July 2019: 183-5.
Journal Issues Edited
“Hindu Economicus,” a co-edited special issue with Cassie Adcock, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(1) 2025: 155-161.
“Living Neoliberalism Outside the West: Global Engagements with Religion and Economy,” a co-edited roundtable with Kirsten Wesselhoeft, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89(3) September 2021: 819-839.
“Business and Benevolence: A Cross-Disciplinary Intervention,” a co-edited special issue with Nayan Mitra of the Journal of Human Values 27(1) January 2021: 7-14.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Civilising Business: The Imperial Episteme of Early US Business School Education,” Business History, published online October 2, 2026: 1-22.
“Hindu Management: S.K. Chakraborty and the Indigenization of Homo Economicus,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(1) 2025: 219-243.
“Retail Religion: Hinduism for a Neoliberal Age,” The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89(3) September 2021: 863-884.
“Corporate Hinduism: An Argument for Attention to Sites of Authority in a Nascent Field of Research,” Religion Compass 15(2) 2020: 1-9.
“B-School Religion: Hindu Theologies in India’s Neoliberal Cityscapes,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42(6) October 2019: 1046-1061.
“On Blood, Power, and Public Interest: The Concealment of Hindu Sacrificial Rites under Indian Law” Journal of Law and Religion 34(2) August 2019: 165-182.
“Kālīghāṭ and the Fashioning of Middle-Class Modernities,” International Journal of Hindu Studies 23(1) April 2019: 11-26.
Book Chapters
“On blood, power, and public interest: The concealment of Hindu sacrificial rites under Indian law.” In Animal Sacrifice and the Law in South Asia. Ed. Daniela Berti and Anthony Good. London: Routledge. 2023. [Reprint of 2019 Journal of Law and Religion 34(2) article].
“Kālī and the Queen: Religion and the Production of Calcutta’s Pasts and Presents.” In Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia. Ed. Istvan Keul. London: Routledge. 2021.
Public Media Pieces
“Making Persons, Cultures, and Nations,” in The Immanent Frame’s forum on The Corporate Form. Published online May 7, 2021.
“Race, Religion, and the Indian-American Vote” The Revealer. Published online October 6, 2020.
“A Hindu Guide to Wealth: Finding Success in Neoliberal India” The Revealer. Published online July 14, 2020.
“space, place” in A Universe of Terms, a special project by The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion, and the public sphere. Published online February 28, 2020.
Reference Entries
“Capitalism and Hinduism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press. Published online August 23, 2023.
“Kolkata/Calcutta” Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press. Published online March 25, 2020.
“Middle Class Hinduism” Encyclopedia of Indian Religions: Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Ed: Arvind Sharma, Springer. Published online June 28, 2018.
Book Reviews
“Review of Das Acevedo, The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India,” in Reading Religion. Published online April 10, 2026.
“Prophets, Polemics, and Parasitic Nationalism,” Contribution to a forum on J. Barton Scott’s Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India, on Marginalia Review of Books. Published online October 25, 2024.
“Review of Hulsether, Capitalist Humanitarianism,” American Religion 5(1) 2023: 186-88.
“Hindu Ritual in India’s High-Tech City: A Review of Tulasi Srinivas’s The Cow in the Elevator.” The Revealer. Published online July 22, 2021.
“Review of Elison, The Neighborhood of the Gods: The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai,” International Journal of Hindu Studies 24(3) 2020: 412-14.
“Review of Schaflechner, Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan,” Religion 48(3) 2018: 537-40.
“Review of Scott, Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-rule,” Religion 48(2) 2017: 324-7.
Publications in Progress
Business School Hinduism: An Imperial Genealogy [book manuscript in progress].