She was a Research Fellow with Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) from (2017-2021). She has a PhD in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2015-2017), where she wrote a monograph that critically revisited the debate on Swami Vivekananda’s “Neo-Vedanta”. She specializes in intellectual and religious history and has worked at the interstices of history, philosophy and religious studies. Her research interests are Ramakrishna-Vivekananda studies; Vedanta; history of Hinduism; historical geography of India; history writing in colonial India; and Indian nationalist thought. She has contributed eight entries to the Hinduism section of the Springer Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, articles to journals like Annual Review of Sociology of Religion (Brill) and chapters to edited volumes published by Routledge, D K Printworld, and Aryan Books International. She has also co-edited with Arvind Gupta the volume Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Relevance of Ancient Indian Thinking to Contemporary Strategic Reality (2020). She is presently an Assistant Professor in History at Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal.
