Kalyani Ramnath

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2025 “Stateless in South Asia: A Legal History of Challenges to Immigration, Nationality and Citizenship Regimes in Sri Lanka”, Statelessness in Asia (Jaclyn Neo, Michelle Foster, and Christoph Sperfeldt eds., Cambridge University Press, 2025).

2024 Adrift in the Andaman Sea: 
Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty, Past & Present, Volume 265, Issue Supplement_17, November 2024, Pages 249–281.

2023  “Other Partitions: Migrant Geographies, Disconnected Histories between India and Malaya, 1945 - 1965” , South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent (Elisabeth Leake and Berenice Guyot-Rechard eds., Amsterdam University Press) [Amsterdam University Press] [please note an error in this essay, contact me by email]

2022 Making Maritime Boundaries in the Bay of Bengal, 40 (3) Law and History Review (2022) [Cambridge Journals]

2022 ‘Law and the Political Imaginary in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern India’, Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India (Mrinalini Sinha and Manu Goswami eds., Bloomsbury UK) (Bloomsbury UK)

2021 Histories of Indian Citizenship in the Age of Decolonization, Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions [Cambridge Journals]

2020 ‘Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Decolonization, International Law in Post-World War II South Asia’, 38 (1) Law and History Review (2020) [Cambridge Journals]

2016 ADM Jabalpur’s Antecedents: Political Emergencies, Civil Liberties and Arguments from Colonial Continuities in India, 31 (2) American University International Law Review (2016) [AUILR]

2013 ‘The Colonial Difference between Law and Fact: Notes on the Criminal Jury in India’, 50 (3) Indian Social and Economic History Review (2013) [Sage Publications]

2012 ‘We The People, Seamless Webs and Social Revolutions: Imagination and Expectation in the Constituent Assembly Debates of India’, 32(1) South Asia Research (2012) (reprinted in The Constituent Assembly Reader: Deliberations on Democracy (Udit Bhatia ed., Routledge Publishing, 2018) [Sage Publications]

2011 ‘Justice in her Infinite Variety’ (book review) Mithi Mukherjee, ‘India in the Shadows of Empire’ 8 Socio-Legal Review (2011)

2011 ‘Of Limited Suits and Limitless Legalities: Interpreting Legal Procedure in the Ayodhya Judgment’, 5 NUALS Law Journal (2011). [HeinOnline]

2011 ‘The Runaway Judgment: Law-as-Literature, Courtcraft and Constitutional Visions’, 3 Journal of Indian Law and Society (2011) [JILS]