Medha is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shiv Nadar University and Research Fellow at the Institute of Asia Studies (IAS) at GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg. In her work she investigates the historical and colonial constitution of global order and the entanglements of race, religion, gender, caste and class this entails. She is currently working on three inter-related strands of inquiry 1. Muslimness in India’s articulation of the self and the other in its foreign policy 2. Recovery of imaginaries of political communities and global relations that do not take the state and the international system as frames of reference, and 3. Development of a theoretical perspective for the study of caste in International Relations.