Eugenia VaninaEugenia Vanina is currently Chief Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. She graduated from Moscow State University and since 1985 has been a staff member of Centre for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Rssian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Her publications include: Ideas and Society in India from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (1996, 2nd edn., 2004); Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) (2004); Medieval Indian Mindscapes: Space, Time, Society, Man (2012). She has also edited two volumes: Indian History: A Russian Viewpoint (2003); and another with D. N. Jha, Mind over Matter: Essays on Mentalities in Medieval India (2009). Read More Read Less