My doctoral thesis examines the memory cultures surrounding the Free Indian Legion and the Indian National Army from the Second World War. I explore how the wartime experiences of Indian sepoys challenge dominant post-war memory narratives in India, Germany, and the United Kingdom. As part of my research, I investigate museums across these national contexts to understand how Indian soldiers are represented or overlooked within frameworks of national memory. My work engages with visual and archival sources, including photographs, courtroom testimonies, and memoirs, to trace how soldiers’ voices and bodies appear (or are silenced) in postcolonial memory regimes.

More broadly, I am interested in how histories of empire and military are remembered, contested, and represented across national borders and the ways in which the politics of remembering informs contemporary debates around nationalism and the legacies of colonialism in both South Asia and Europe.