2009-present

Dissertation Research
Research Affiliate of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Chicago, USA, and Delhi, India
Affiliated with Banaras Hindi University, Varanasi, India
Archival Research:
– British Library, London
– National Archives of India, Delhi
– Uttar Pradesh State Archives, Lucknow
– Uttar Pradesh State Regional Archives, Allahabad
Textual Research:
– Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
– Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
– Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna
– Agra Hindi Vidyapith, Agra
– Allahabad Museum, Allahabad
– Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Allahabad
– K. M. Hindi Institute, Agra University, Agra
– Nagaripracharini Sabha, Varanasi
– Vrindaban Research Institute, Vrindaban
Ethnographic Research:
– Various cities and towns in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Fall 2007

Research Assistant
Research Project “Penn Globalization Studies”
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2002-2005

Research Assistant
Research project “Temple Rituals in Kanchipuram”
Collaborative Research Center “Dynamics of Ritual” (SFB 619, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany