Supriya Gandhi’s research examines the histories of Islam and Hinduism in South Asia. She is interested in the religious and cultural history of the Mughal empire, Islamic mysticism, the early modern and modern translation of Indic texts into Persian, modern Hindu thought, and Indian secularism. Her research has been supported by grants from the Fulbright and ACLS/Mellon foundations, among others. She is the author of The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020). Her current project explores discourses of universal religion from Mughal India through the period of British colonial rule.
A.M. and Ph.D. Harvard University
M.A. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
B.A., St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi