Sarath Pillai

Sarath Pillai is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Chicago. He holds a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School. His research examines a range of legal and political ideas about sovereignty, state, nationalism, democracy, and rights as they came to cluster around the demand for an All-Indian Federation in late colonial India. Translation and circulation of constitutional ideas and interwar legal and political thought are of special interest to him. He was a Fellow at the Hurst Institute for Legal History at University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently a Dissertation Fellow at the Center for International Social Science Research at UChicago. His writings have appeared in both peer-reviewed and public forums like Law and History Review, Archives and Records, Economic and Political Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Diplomat, Scroll.in among others.