Vanya Vaidehi Bhargava

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia. She completed her DPhil in history at St Antony?s College, University of Oxford. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Global Intellectual History, Studies in Indian Politics and Religions. She has been a research fellow at the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ?Metamorphosis of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century? (ICAS: M.P.), New Delhi, India, and a senior research fellow with Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ?Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities?, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. Committed to engaging with the public, Bhargav has written for the Indian Express, The Hindu and The Wire.