# Sarath Pillai Graduate Associate ![Pillai](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/593abd1e-f41d-470d-a49a-15538c767b83.jpg?itok=LyGMzbX4) email laptop\_windows [Sarath Pillai's profile at the University of Chicago](https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/sarath-pillai) [Sarath Pillai](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.uchicago.edu_directory_sarath-2Dpillai&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=K0ebY3ucGUuoBmujGDsVvStE0H0k6ar1r90yRqCFtAQ&m=GftmYP_Zmg-8vi2Udhl7bj-d0gMDVt_sAZ766Y6Tw16QDe01W99OVU5SPhRuH1J4&s=ErtQX5g9eLEO1s82tCshqTDLwVmjSb-R9jDdsHupLnc&e=) 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. - ## People categories [Associate](/people-categories/graduate-associates)