About me:

I am working on the inherent Eurocentricity in international law. My thesis focuses on India’s colonization through the trial of the last Mughal Emperor—Bahadur Shah Zafar. I am researching on the role of the British East India Company in the working and formation of international law. I am also looking at how sovereignty was divided between the British East India company and the British Crown. My research is partly based on the archives located in India and the UK. I adopt the Third World Approaches to International Law as my research methodology.

I host the IL-Literate: An International Law Podcast with Aman Kumar and write regularly on my Indian Blog of International Law.

Publication:

• Appropriating Sovereignty through Trials: British Imperial Expansion and Staging of Oppression through Law in Mark A. Drumbl and Caroline Fournet (eds.), Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions, Brill (2024), 385-402.
• Absence of India’s International Criminal Law obligations in its Domestic laws, 2023, Ministry of Justice, Poland
• Nomination of Candidates to International Judicial and Legal Bodies: A Critical Examination of Indian Practice – Cambridge International Law Journal (2022), Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 268–292 (co-authored with Prof. Prabhash Ranjan)
• Trial as a Tool of Colonialism: The 1858 Trial of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, International Criminal Law Review (Brill), 22(1-2), 166-188, 2021
• A relook at the Principle of Uti-Possiedtis in the context of Indo-Nepal border dispute, Jindal Global Law Review (Springer), 12 (2021), pp. 95-115
• Resolving the ‘Dispute’ under Article 119(1) of the Rome Statute – Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press), 10 (2020), pp. 38-49 

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