Sahil is an (aspiring) historian specialising in environmental, labour and migratory histories of plantation-based communities in colonial Southeast Asia. His research aims to explore plantations as transnational spaces, demonstrating the relationship between space, mobility and protest on the estate.
Under supervision from Natasha Lightfoot and Kirsten Schulze at the Columbia-LSE program, Sahil’s thesis examined the transnational connectivities of Malayan Indian plantation-based resistance movements in the 1940s. Thanks to the Alliance and SEAC Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowships, his thesis was supported by English, Malay, and Tamil language archival documents collected in Malaysia, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
Prior to the program, he received an MA in International Relations and Modern History from the University of St Andrews. Currently, Sahil is a Research Associate working under the Hong Kong Research Hub at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
