Himanshu Prabha Ray

Author and historian Himanshu Prabha Ray is affiliated to the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford. After receiving MPhil (Archaeology) from the University of Cambridge, she completed her PhD at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and subsequently taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University. In 2012, she was appointed the first Chairperson of the newly established National Monuments Authority, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. From 2014 to 2019 she was awarded the prestigious five-year Anneliese Maier fellowship of Humboldt Foundation, Germany and held an Honorary Professorship at the Distant Worlds Graduate School of the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.