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About Saumya Dadoo
Hello! My name is Saumya Dadoo and I’m a doctoral candidate at Columbia University in the Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies. My work focuses on the development of carceral governance and legal institutions in the provincial city of Allahabad under the British in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I am interested in questions of legal history, gender & sexuality, human rights in India and feminist methodology.
NBN Episodes hosted by Saumya:
July 25, 2026
Fear of the False
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia (Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asia's critic…
July 22, 2026
A Jurisprudence of Conversations
Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovative…
March 25, 2026
Colonial Caregivers
Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India (Cambridge UP, 2025) offers a compelling cultural and social hi…
January 23, 2026
Spaces of Anticolonialism
Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (U Georgia Press, 2025) is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as th…
December 27, 2025
Trials of Sovereignty
Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 (Cambridge UP, 2024) offers the first legal history…
November 18, 2025
Provincial Metropolis
Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India (Cambridge UP, 2025) tells the story of Patna, in the north Indian region of…