Participant Info
- First Name
- Kalyani
- Last Name
- Ramnath
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- kalyaniramnath@fas.harvard.edu
- Affiliation
- Harvard University
- Website URL
- https://www.kalyani-ramnath.com
- Keywords
- legal history, migration, displacement, citizenship, South Asia, Indian Ocean, law
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of modern South Asia, with research and teaching interests in legal history, transnational history, and histories of migration and displacement. At present, I am a Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at the Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University.
I received my Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2018. I also hold a bachelor’s degree in arts and law (B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) (JD equivalent) from the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) and a master’s degree in law (LL.M.) from the Yale Law School. From 2010 – 2012, I served on the faculty of the NLSIU.
- Recent Publications
2019 Madras, Rangoon and the Intertwined Itineraries of International Law, Law and History Review (February 2020) [Cambridge]
2016 ADM Jabalpur’s Antecedents: Political Emergencies, Civil Liberties and Arguments from Colonial Continuities in India, 31 (2) American University International Law Review (2016) [AUILR]
2013 ‘The Colonial Difference between Law and Fact: Notes on the Criminal Jury in India’, 50 (3) Indian Social and Economic History Review (2013) [Sage Publications]
2012 ‘We The People, Seamless Webs and Social Revolutions: Imagination and Expectation in the Constituent Assembly Debates of India’, 32(1) South Asia Research (2012) (reprinted in The Constituent Assembly Reader: Deliberations on Democracy (Udit Bhatia ed., Routledge Publishing, 2018) [Sage Publications]
2011 ‘Justice in her Infinite Variety’ (book review) Mithi Mukherjee, ‘India in the Shadows of Empire’ 8 Socio-Legal Review (2011)
2011 ‘Of Limited Suits and Limitless Legalities: Interpreting Legal Procedure in the Ayodhya Judgment’, 5 NUALS Law Journal (2011). [HeinOnline]
2011 ‘The Runaway Judgment: Law-as-Literature, Courtcraft and Constitutional Visions’, 3 Journal of Indian Law and Society (2011) [JILS]
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @kalramnath
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, India
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Government, Law, Libraries & Archives, Migration & Immigration, World War II
