Vasudha Dalmia

Vasudha Dalmia is an Indian professor emerita of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her authored works include ''The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhāratendu Hariśchandra and Nineteenth Century Banaras'' (1997), the essay collection ''Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, History'' (2017), and commentary on Hindi novels in ''Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India'' (2019). Her edited works include ''Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity'' (1995), ''Charisma and Canon: Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent'' (2001), and ''Religious Interactions in Modern India'' (2019). Provided by Wikipedia