Amiya P. Sen is a historian with an interest in the intellectual and cultural history of modern India. To date, he has authored and edited sixteen books. Prof. Sen has been Agatha Harrison Fellow at the University of Oxford, Shivdasani Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Heinrich Zimmer Chair at the University of Heidelberg, and Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, He has served the Universities of Delhi, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.