About the Author

Judith E. Walsh, Ph.D., obtained her Ph.D. in Modern South Asian History from Columbia University and is currently a Professor in the Humanities and Languages Department at the State University of New York, Old Westbury. She has more than 20 years' experience writing, lecturing, and teaching courses on India and South Asia. She has also studied Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bengali and recently published a book of translations from 19th-century Bengali-language texts.