Audrey Truschke

Audrey Truschke is a Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University–Newark. She has written four widely praised books: Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (2016), Aurangzeb (2016), The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule (2021), and India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (June 2025).