Jonathan Koshy Varghese
(Associate Researcher, May 2024 – present)
Biography:
Jonathan Koshy Varghese is an Assistant Professor at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. His work involves the study of textual practices such as petitions, memorandums, colonial-state surveillance papers, confidential letters, and judicial statements as they came to be formulated during the course of the 19th and up to the mid-20th century. The aim of his project is to assimilate the textual practices of three archival resources – religious, colonial and judicial – in order to generate a critical, secular and essentially global history of the Suriyani (Christian) community of India.
Visiting Doctoral Scholar at CSH: October 2021 – April 2024
Publications:
- Varghese, Jonathan Koshy. 2026. “Ottoman Christianity in the Land of the Suriyani: Archives and the Making of Minority Histories.” IIC Quarterly, special issue “Syncretic Traditions of the Indian Subcontinent: Varied Voices,” edited by Jyotsna Singh and K. E. Priyamvada, Winter 2025–Spring 2026, 124–139.
- Varghese, Jonathan Koshy. 2026. “Imperial Testimonies: Rereading Max Havelaar Through the Dutch Malabar Archives” Bandung: Journal of the Global South. https://doi.org/10.1163/21983534-20262014
- Varghese, Jonathan Koshy. 2026. “Narrating the Slave-Caste: Protestant Anxieties and Textual Productions in Nineteenth-Century Travancore.” In Human Rights and Indian Literary Communities, edited by Swatie. London: Routledge.
- Varghese, Jonathan K. 2025. “Mārggakkār: States of Conversion and Unbelonging in Kerala.” Philological Encounters, 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10070.
- Varghese, Jonathan Koshy. 2024. Review of The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World, by Nienke Boer. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.
