Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study
A Sea of Scribes: Translation, Bureaucracy, and Persianate Port-Cities in the Indian Ocean
Subah Dayal’s first book, Between Household and State: The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India, is forthcoming (2024) with the University of California Press. At the Center for Humanities, she is working on her second project – a comparative study of the scribal cultures of Safavid and Mughal port-cities, with a focus on Bandar ‘Abbas, Surat, and Masulipatnam.