I am an active historian from India and specialized in modern Indian history from undergraduate to Masters level, in the process developing a strong interest in the history of subaltern and marginalized groups whose history is largely neglected in mainstream history. I did my M. A. and M. Phil from Hyderabad Central University and PhD. D from University of Warwick, UK, on Ford Foundation International Fellowship on the topic of ‘Power, Subaltern and Identity: Making of the Lambada Community (a nomadic/pastoral community) in Hyderabad State’. I was Postdoctoral Fellow in 2010 at SOAS, University of London on British Council Visiting Fellowship. My research interests are community histories, the effects of power/knowledge, govern mentality and dominance on subaltern communities, particularly adivasis; the state and nationalism, and identity movements by forest and hill peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I taught history at Osmania University from 1997 to 2010, and at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad from 2010 to 2014. Presently I am teaching at University of Hyderabad. I am also associated with adivasi (indigenous) people’s human right association in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Among my recent publications are:Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas Under the Rule of Nizams (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2010) and several articles in leading international social science journals. I am now working on histories of Gond community of Central India, particularly their encounter with British colonial state.