Premodern history is newsworthy? You bet.

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Quoted in Andrew Cockburn, “The Hindutva Lobby: How Hindu nationalism spreads in America,” Harper's Magazine, September 2024. here

Featured in “Inside India’s secret campaign to threaten and harass Americans,” Vox, May 22, 2024. here

Quoted in “US senators’ inquiry about Rutgers law center raises free speech concerns,” northjersey.com, February 2024. here

Quoted in “The Hindu Nationalists using the Pro-Israel Playbook,” Jewish Currents, Spring 2023. here

Quoted in “Rutgers' tentative accord with faculty includes protections against caste bias,” Gothamist, April 19, 2023. here

Quoted in “An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom?” The Guardian, January 8, 2023. here

Select Pre-2023 Media Attention

Quoted in “How Far-Right Hindu Supremacy Went Global,” Vice News, October 26, 2022. here

Profiled in “Far-Right Hindu Nationalism Is Gaining Ground In The U.S.” Huffington Post, October 22, 2022. here

Quoted in “Why Urdu language draws ire of India’s right-wing,” BBC, May 16, 2022. here

Quoted in “Savarkar Biographer Vikram Sampath Accused of Plagiarism, Historians Say Others' Work Not Cited Fairly,” The Wire, February 14, 2022. here

Attacks on Dr. Truschke’s academic freedom featured in The Washington Post, October 3, 2021, here

Interview with The Caravan on history and Hindu nationalism, March 19, 2021. here

Guest on ABC’s Good Morning America, speaking about the Dr. Jill Biden controversy and sexism, December 15, 2020. here

Quoted in "An Opinion Writer Argued Jill Biden Should Drop the ‘Dr.’ (Few Were Swayed.)", New York Times, December 12, 2020. here

Public education regarding Hindutva ideology: “Rutgers Stands Behind Professor Who Said Hindutva Was 'Inspired by Nazism' Amid Backlash,” October 3, 2019. here (video of Dr. Truschke’s remarks here)

Aurangzeb’s villainisation is bad history but a good storyline. The Telegraph, August 11, 2018. here

Audrey Truschke’s ‘Aurangzeb’ engages with (and demolished) WhatsApp history. Review of Aurangzeb by Shoaib Daniyal, Scroll.in, April 26, 2017. here

Aurangzeb, A Stranger No More. Review of Aurangzeb by Akshaya Mukul, The Hindu, March 4, 2017. here

The Misunderstood Mughals, excerpts from Audrey Truschke’s Aurangzeb, India Today, February 9, 2017. here

Interview with Audrey Truschke. The Hindu, September 14, 2015. here