Usha Sanyal

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Usha Sanyal is an Indian scholar and historian of Islam specializing in the Barelvi movement. She was a visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina. Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi.

Education

Sanyal graduated with a BA (Honors) in sociology with a minor in economics from Delhi University, India and an MA in Southeast Asian studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Her M Phil. in South Asian and Southeast Asian history, was done from Columbia University. She also completed a Ph.D. in history from the Columbia University in 1990.

Languages

Sanyal's research includes a knowledge of the English, French, and Hindi-Urdu Languages.

Works

Sanyal has authored five books: Devotional Islam and Politics in British India received a positive review from the scholar and translator of South Asian literature Aditya Behl in The Journal of Religion. He described it as "a well-researched and welcome addition to the literature on Islamic reform in colonial India". Her articles include:

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