Publications

Books

The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kālīghāṭ and Kolkata. New York: Oxford University Press. 2018.

Reviews of this book:

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].