Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.

She is the author of four acclaimed books: Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court  (2016),  Aurangzeb (2016), The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (2021), India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (June 2025).

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