Melina Gravier is a PhD candidate in the history of modern South Asia at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She was awarded a 4-year Doc.CH Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her doctoral research. Her research interests sit at the intersection of legal history, religious studies and political economy. Working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials, she studies writings on gold and jewelry published in late colonial India to examine how women defended their economic rights in their everyday experiences. Her research engaged with a vast archive of magazines to uncover women’s engagement with the law in informal venues. Besides her dissertation, she is preparing the special issue “Worldly Magazines: Form, Circulation, and Cultural Change” for the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Duke University Press), co-edited with Zain R. Mian and Sumaira Nawaz. She is also leading the project “Women and the Court” with Nadia Cattoni.