Aloka Parasher-SenAloka Parasher Sen is Professor Emerita, Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, where she had earlier served in the Department of History (1979-2018). Among her writings Mlecchas in Early India, (Munshiram Manoharlal,191) and a Reader on Subordinate and Marginal Groups in Early India up to 1500 AD (Oxford University Press, 2004; 2nd edition 2007) define her interest in social history of marginal groups. On the early history of the Deccan are notably, Social and Economic History of Early Deccan -- Some Interpretations (Manohar1993; 2019); Settlement and Local Histories of the Early Deccan (Routledge, 2021) and Gender, Religion and Local History of the Early Deccan (Primus, 2022). She has co-edited (with Sekhar Bandhyopadhyay) Religion and Modernity in India (Oxford University Press, 2016) and edited Seeking History through her Source, South of the Vindhyas (Orient Blackswan, 2022) among others. Read More Read Less