She writes on various aspects of the political history of colonial India, with a focus on anti-colonialism and on gender.
[citation needed] She is the recipient of the 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
[citation needed] She is also co-editing (with David Gilmartin and Prasannan Parthasarthi) the two-volume Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Sub-Continent (forthcoming).[when?
[citation needed] Her sister, Manisha Sinha, is Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut.
[2] A second sister, now retired, was the founder-principal of a leading bilingual (Spanish-English) school in Spain.