Chandra Mallampalli is a historian of modern South Asia and a Senior Research Fellow of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College. He is the author of Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India and A Muslim Conspiracy in British India? (Cambridge University Press, 2011 and 2017).   His most recent book, South Asia’s Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim, describes how the lives of Christians have been shaped by centuries of interactions with Hindus and Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. His current project, The Virtues of Mixture, focuses on inter-ethnic relations and religious change among labor migrants to the Persian Gulf and southeast Asia, as these regions transitioned to the era of modern nation-states.