Audrey Truschke

Associate Professor of South Asian History, Rutgers University, Newark

Audrey Truschke is associate professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Her books include Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (2016), Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King (2017) and The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (forthcoming, January 2021).

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Written by Audrey Truschke

Indian traditional painting of two barechested men fighting surrounded by an audience in formal dress with grass at their feet.

essayStories and literature

The living Mahabharata

Immorality, sexism, politics, war: the polychromatic Indian epic pulses with relevance to the present day

Audrey Truschke

essayGlobal history

A much-maligned Mughal

The great king Aurangzeb is among the most hated men in Indian history. A historian claims he’s been unjustly demonised

Audrey Truschke