Saumya DeySaumya Dey is a professor of history at the Rashtram School of Public Leadership, Rishihood University, Sonipat, Haryana. He has done a PhD at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His primary research interests are intellecual and cultural history and the politics of colonial India. His earlier books are Becoming Hindus and Muslims: Reading the Cultural Encounter in Bengal 1342-1905 (2015), The Cultural Landscape of Hindutva and Other Essays: Historical Legitimacy of an Idea (2019) and Narrativizing Bhāratvarṣa and Other Essays (2021). Read More Read Less