My work covers political theory, international relations, and public law, with particular focus on constitutionalism, majoritarianism, and the ethics of emerging technologies. I study how political communities justify authority and democratic self-rule in the wake of empire, and how these justificatory frameworks are reshaped by technological infrastructures.

My first book project, Justification After Empire: Anticolonial Ethics and the Politics of Constitutionalism (forthcoming), examines how anticolonial thought in South Asia reimagined the very grounds of political legitimacy. By reconstructing ideas of intelligibility, progress, and self-respect, anticolonial thinkers challenged imperial grammars of justification and offered plural, relational alternatives for democratic self-rule. The book shows how these frameworks exposed the fragility of law and dignity in the face of majoritarianism, recasting constitutionalism not as a settled inheritance but as a contested arena of legitimacy.

My current work extends my argument on justification to algorithmic governance. I develop the Knowledge of Structures Problem as a framework for understanding how computational systems inherit and transform colonial grammars of classification and recognition, raising new constitutional questions about rights, legitimacy, and accountability. Extending insights from my Justification After Empire book project to the technological present, the book argues that contemporary AI infrastructures reproduce the monopolistic forms of worldmaking once consolidated by empire, and that anticolonial ethics offers vital resources for confronting their justificatory claims.

Across my writing and teaching, I am committed to ethical reconstruction: drawing on anticolonial traditions to ask how dignity, mutual recognition, and moral agency can be reclaimed in plural democracies and in a world increasingly shaped by technological power.