PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

2025. Cultural Chronicles: Exploring Telugu Christian Periodicals in Colonial India, Mission Studies, Vol.41 (3), Mar 2025.

2025. Rediscovering Hitavadi: A Forgotten Pioneer of Telugu Vernacular Print and Missionary Journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Feb 2025.

2023. Christian Women’s Journals and Vernacular Christianity: A Case Study of Vivekavathi in Telugu Speaking Regions, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 46 (5), 2023: pp.956-973.

2023. Famine, Caste Differences and Missionary Christianity in Colonial India: Burning Hunger, South Asia Research, Vol.43 (2), 2023: pp. 210-226.

2021. Dalit Women and Colonial Christianity: First Telugu Bible Women as Teachers of Wisdom, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.56 (11), March 13, 2021: pp.57-63.

2019. In Search of a Touchable Body: Christian Mission and Dalit Conversions, Religions, Vol 10 (644), 2019: pp.1-14.

Book Chapters

2025. Voices of Change: A Chronicle of Empowerment in the Telugu Baptist. (Accepted), in Baptist Missions: History, Music, and Theopolitics. Eds by T. Laine Scales and Joao Chanves, 2025 (Baylor University Press). (forthcoming)

2025. Recovering the Legacy of Nanchari, 1830-2018: Dalits, Conversion, and Christianity in South India, in Dalit Journeys for Dignity: Religion, Freedom and Caste, Eds. by Ramnarayan S.Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and P. Sanal Mohan, April 2025 (SUNY Press)

2020. Dalits and the Spectacle of Victimhood in Telugu Cinema in Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-Imagined (ed) Judith Misrahi-Barak, K.Satyanarayana and Nicole Thiara, Routledge, 2020. Pp 213-228.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

2014. Research Assistant for the TISS-Research council funded project on “Compilation of Theoretical Debates on Caste and Gender in Telugu” for Prof. K. Satyanarayana, Dr. Uma Bhrugubanda, EFL University, Hyderabad and Dr. M. Murali Krishna, TISS-Hyderabad, from Aug 2014 to July 2015.