Dr. Meenakshi Jain is a noted historian of medieval and colonial India. She is a former Associate Professor of history at Gargi College, University of Delhi, former Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and former member of the Governing Council of Indian Council of Historical Research. She is currently Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Her areas of research include cultural and religious developments in medieval and early modern India. Her deeply researched books have dealt with historical issues of national importance: Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019), The Battle for Rama: Case of the temple at Ayodhya (2017), Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries and the changing Colonial Discourse (2016), Rama and Ayodhya (2013), Parallel Pathways: Essays on Hindu–Muslim Relations (1707-1857) (2010). She also co-edited The India They Saw: Foreign accounts of India from the 8th to mid-19th century, 3 Vols (2011).
The assassination of Narayan Rao Peshwa is Maratha history’s own Red Wedding — and it changed the fate of an empire. This book launch event, featuring historian Uday Kulkarni with Dr. Meenakshi Jain and Swapan..
Kashi Among all the holy sites, Kashi holds a very special place in Hindu conscience. In the context of the cyclic nature of creation and destruction, the city of Mahadev is believed to have never..
The assassination of Narayan Rao Peshwa is Maratha history’s own Red Wedding — and it changed the fate of an empire. This book launch event, featuring historian Uday Kulkarni with Dr. Meenakshi Jain and Swapan..
Kashi Among all the holy sites, Kashi holds a very special place in Hindu conscience. In the context of the cyclic nature of creation and destruction, the city of Mahadev is believed to have never..
