Medha

• Medha (forthcoming), Escaping the Nation: Abul Kalam Azad, Islam, and India’s Post-Independence Foreign Policy (1940-64). International History Review. [re-submitted post R&R]
• Medha and Kalthmika Natarajan (forthcoming), ‘Pariah’ States and ‘Untouchable’ Subjects: Foregrounding Caste in International Relations. [Manuscript submitted]

Book Reviews

Medha (2015), Book Review: Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes. Amy H. Liu. LSE Review of Books (29 Jul 2015)

Medha, (2015), Book review: Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World. LSE Review of Books (08 Jun 2015)

Chapters in Books

Medha, Kumar, M. and Chauhan, R. (2013), Scenarios 2030, in: Rumel Dahiya (ed.), Developments in the Gulf Region: Prospects and Challenges for India in the Next Two Decades, New Delhi: IDSA

Medha and Kalathmika Natarajan (2020). Making Identity Count: India 1950. Report. Making Identity Project (Hopf, T, Bentley, A., Vucetic, S.). https://www.makingidentitycount.org/india

Medha (2019), The Revocation of Kashmir's Autonomy: High-Risk Hindutva Politics at Play, GIGA Focus Asia, 05/2019, Hamburg: GIGA

Medha (2016), India a Home Only to Hindus? New Refugee Policy Exacerbates Tensions, GIGA Focus Asia, 08/2016, Hamburg: GIGA

Medha (2017), Indien: Heimtstatt nur für Hindus? Süd Asien: Zeitschrift der Südasien Büro e.V. 1/2017 

Medha, (2016), India a Home Only to Hindus? New Refugee Policy Exacerbates Tensions, GIGA Focus Asia, 08, December

Medha, and Julka, A. (2014), The Politics of Modi's Vegetarianism, in: The Disorder Of Things (Academic Blog)

Medha (2014), Den Puls der Nation überwachen: Modi und die indischen Medien, Südasien: Zeitschrift der Südasien Büro e.V., 3-4/2014

Invited Lectures

Islam and the Politics of the Global South’ – Summer Seminar at the Chair for International Relations at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany – May 2022

Islam and the Politics of the Global South’ – Summer Seminar at the Chair for International Relations at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany – May 2021

‘Religion as a central category in Indian diplomacy’ – Guest Lecture as part of the course Postcolonial Indian Foreign Policy: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender, School of History, Classics and Archeology, University of Edinburgh - 24th Feb 2021

‘Islam in the Constitution of Indian Identity and Foreign Policy’ – Seminar as part of the Global Studies Programme at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany – November 2020

Conference Presentations

Medha and Kalthmika Natarajan (2023), ‘Pariah’ States and ‘Untouchable’ Subjects: Foregrounding Caste in International Relations. Workshop on Caste and Diplomacy, Leiden University, May 22-23, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Medha (2022). Seeking Relations International in Urdu Poetry of Late Colonial India. ISA Annual Convention 2022 (Mar 28 – Apr 2), Nashville, USA, In online mode.

Medha (2020), Escaping the Nation: Abul Kalam Azad, Islam, and India’s Foreign Policy (1940-64), Millennium Conference 2020, LSE, London (Oct 22 – 24), In online mode.

Medha (2019), ‘Abul Kalam Azad and Muslim Internationalisms of the 1930s’ presented at Conference on Institutional Legacies of India’s Internationalist Thought and Practice, 1919-2019, organised by SOAS, London and the Department of International Relations, Ashoka University, Sonepat, 2020, Jan 31 - 1 Feb.

Medha (2018), ‘An Indo-Islamic Internationalism?’ International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco, USA, Apr 4-7, 2018

Medha (2017), ‘The foreign politics of Identity: Dialectics of Self and Other in India’s Foreign Policy’ Changing Asia 2017: Perspectives on Regional and Global Cooperation, IDSA, New Delhi, India, Sept 15-18, 2017

Medha (2017), ‘Asia-Africa Unity and India: An exploration of Islam in India’s post-Independence Third World Politics’ International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Feb 22- 25 2017 

Medha, and Wojczewski, T. (2017), ‘Non-alignment: An Untapped Theoretical Source for Building a Global IR?’ International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Feb 22- 25 2017 

Medha, (2016), ‘A solid wall of friendship and defence for India’: Rethinking Islam in the 1950s Indian Diplomacy’, Millennium Conference “Racialised Realities in World Politics” London School of Economics, London, UK, 22-Oct 22 to 23 2016

Medha (2016), ‘Building Alliance for a Revolution: Diaspora Diplomacy in an Imperial Age’ ISA-Asia Pacific Conference, Hong Kong, June 25 – 27 2016

Medha (2016), ‘Ways of being and belonging: An Indo-Islamic perspective on relating with the world’, ISA's 57th Annual Convention "Exploring Peace", Atlanta, 18 Mar 2016 

Medha and Nymalm, N. (2016), ‘Constituting causality beyond the ideational/material divide – a conciliatory reply to the critics of 'causal rejection'', ISA's 57th Annual Convention, "Exploring Peace", Atlanta, 16 Mar 2016

Round-table participation

Chaired and organised panel titled ‘South Asia: Imposed Categories and Imposing Powers’ for the NIICE International Studies Convention (Aug 27-29, 2021)

Participant in webinar on Caste in International Relations organised by Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE), 18 June 2020 (Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcefzg6Zo24)