Edited Book
2019. Imagining Asia(s): Actors, Networks, Sites (co-edited with Andrea Acri, Murari K. Jha, and Kashshaf Ghani). Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, (ISBN 9789814818858).
Articles/ Essays in Peer Reviewed Journals
2018. âRelics in Transition: Material Mediations in Changing Worldsâ, Ars Orientalis, 48:20â42
2013. âConfiguring Sacred Spaces: Archaeology, Temples and Monument Making in Colonial Orissaâ, South Asian Studies, Vol. 29, No.1, 15-29.
2010. âBeing and Becoming Indian: The Nation in Archaeologyâ, South Asian Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, 219-234.
2009. âNew Province Old Capital: Making Patna Pataliputraâ, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 46, No. 2, 241-279
Essays/ Book Chapters in Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
2020 (forthcoming). âBones on the Move: Diplomacy, Scholarship, and Ritual Lives of Traveling Buddhist Relics from British India to Siamâ. (Beijing: Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of Art History, The ComitĂ© International dâHistoire de lâArt, forthcoming)
2019. âTransmissions, Translations, Reconstitutions: Revisiting Geographies of Buddha Relics in the Southern Asian Worldsâ, in Andrea Acri, Sraman Mukherjee, Murari K. Jha, and Kashshaf Ghani (eds.), Imagining Asia(s): Actors, Networks, Sites (Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 215-250)
2019. âIntroductionâ, (co-authored with Andrea Acri, Murari K. Jha, and Kashshaf Ghani), in Andrea Acri, Sraman Mukherjee, Murari K. Jha, and Kashshaf Ghani (eds.), Imagining Asia(s): Actors, Networks, Sites (Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 1-13)
2018. âCollecting the Region: Configuring Bihar in the space of Museumsâ, in Anjana Sharma ed., Records, Recoveries, Remnants, and Inter-Asian Connections: Decoding Cultural Heritage, (Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 70-85)
2016. âBuddhism in Contemporary Indiaâ (co-authored with David Geary), in Michael Jerryson ed., The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism (New York: Oxford University Press, 36- 60)
2016. âRelics, Ruins, and Temple Building: Archaeological Heritage and the Construction of the Dharmarajika Vihara, Calcuttaâ, in Nayanjot Lahiri and Upinder Singh eds. Buddhism in Asia: Revival and Reinvention (New Delhi: ICCR, ISEAS, and Manohar, 147-190)
2016. âRecollections of the Restorer: Joseph Daviditch Melik Beglar and the Maha Bodhi Templeâ, in Bijoy Kumar Choudhary ed. Bodhgaya: Impressions Within and Beyond. (Patna: Bihar Heritage Development Society, 59-74).
2015. âA Site Museum without a Site: The Bodh Gaya Archaeological Museumâ, in Saloni Mathur and Kavita Singh eds. No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying (New Delhi: Routledge)
Articles in Institutional Occasional Paper Series and Newsletters
2014. âFrom Sites and Museums to Temples: Relics, Ruins, and New Buddhist Viharas in Colonial Indiaâ, Archive Occasional Paper Series, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, No. 5.
2013. âBetween Religion and History: Afterlives of Buddhist Relicsâ, The Newsletter, International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, Special Issue, No. 66, Winter 2013, 54.
2012. âOf Methods and Aims: The Field of Archaeology in Colonial Indiaâ, The Newsletter, International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, No. 61, Autumn 2012, 4 – 5.
Book Review
2017. âReview of Sudeshna Guha, Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography, and Indian Pasts. (Delhi, Sage India, 2015)â, in Journal of South Asian History and Culture, 8:3, 387-389.