Abhishek Kaicker is an historian of Persianate South Asia (c. 1200-1900) with expertise in the history of the Mughal empire. He is interested in questions of intellectual history and the history of concepts; early modern global history; religion, politics and the city; and more generally in the continuities between precolonial and postcolonial south Asia. 

Kaicker is currently working on writing a biography of Anand Ram Mukhlis, an eighteenth-century courtier, scribe, essayist, diarist, poet, connoisseur, gourmand, and inveterate aficionado of all things Delhi. 

Selected Publications

"Courting India" New York Times Book Review, April 7, 2023. 

“Briskness in the Market of Shaikh-Dom”: The Commercialization of Piety in Early Eighteenth-Century Delhi", History of Religions 61, no. 3 (2022): 243-78.

The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi (OUP, 2020)