Audrey Truschke

Audrey Truschke is assistant professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. She received her PhD in 2012 from Columbia University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the cultural, imperial and intellectual history of early modern and modern India (c.1500-present). She is the author of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Penguin, 2016) and Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth (Penguin, 2017).