Before coming to King's, I completed my doctoral research at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Faisal Devji. I also worked as Junior Dean of St. Edmund Hall. 

Research interests

• Anticolonialism
• The development of interwar 'global civil society'
• Anti-caste political thought, especially from the Dravidian Movement of Tamil Nadu
• Decolonisation
• Colonial Surveillance and Intelligence practices

Teaching

At King's I primarily teach political thought, both from the Western canon and from anticolonial India. I also teach skills-based and thematic papers. 

Selected publications

Abhimanyu Arni, The India League and the Condition of India: Agnotological Imperialism, Colonial State Violence and the Making of Anticolonial Knowledge 1930–4, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2 (2024), 207-232

Abhimanyu Arni, Taking Periyarism Seriously: The Dravidian Identity as a Universality, Global Intellectual History (published online: 08.8.2024), 1-22

Abhimanyu Arni, Another Road to Midnight: The India League and the Anticolonial Idea of a Constituent Assembly 1932-1947, Journal of Global History (forthcoming)