D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1997
History of money, banking, credit and international exchange, history of book production and circulation, history of secretarial classes, history of Delhi
Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2010-
Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2004-2010
Lecturer of Medieval Asian History, University of Delhi, 1998-2004
* Recipient of a University with Potential for Excellence (UPE II) grant for the project entitled “Memoirs, History and Visual Representation - a study of texts and images from European Archives” (with Dhir Sarangi and Kavita Singh) 2018
* Visiting Professor, Sonderforschungsbereich, University of Bonn, December 2017
* Visiting Professor, Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, March 2016
* Erasmus Mundus Fellow, University of Vienna, 2014
* Samir Shamma Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford, 2013
* Visiting Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 2008
* HERMES Postdoctoral Fellow, Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2007
* Indo-French Exchange Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research and Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2006
* Visiting Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla , 2005
* Proxime accessit, Frere Exhibition for Indian Studies, University of Oxford, 1994
* Overseas Research Student Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, U.K., 1992-93 * INLAKS Fellow, University of Oxford, 1990-93
1. ‘Norms of Professional Excellence and Good Conduct in Accountancy Manuals of the Mughal Empire’, International Review of Social History (vol. 56, Special Issue, 2011)
2. 'Structure and Movement of Wages in the Mughal Empire', Wages and Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons, ed. Jan Lucassen (Amsterdam, 2008).
3. 'A Holi Riot of 1714: Versions from Ahmadabad and Delhi', Living Together Separately: Cultural India in History and Politics, eds. Mushirul Hasan and Asim Roy (Oxford University Press, 2005)
4. 'The Quantity Theory and Mughal Monetary History', Journal of Medieval History, vol. 2, no. 2 (1999)
5. 'Precious Metal Flows and Currency circulation in the Mughal Empire', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient: Special Issue 'Money in the Orient' (Leiden, June 1996)
1. ‘Money and Social Inequality: The Views of Abu’l Fazl’, Studies in People’s History, vol. 3 (Sage, 2016)
2. ‘Fractional and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200-1800)’, Small Currencies Matter: Trade and Transactions in Early Modern East Asian Economies, eds. Jane Kate Leonard and Ulrich Theobald (Brill, 2015)
3. Chapters on 'Coinage and the Silver Crisis' and 'Foreign Trade of India' in Economic History of Medieval India (1200-1500), ed. Irfan Habib, (Pearson, 2011)