Beginning with the release of her first book, Truschke has faced a constant barrage of online harassment, hate mail, co-ordinated attacks on social media, and in some cases, even censure-in August 2018, a lecture she was due to give in Hyderabad was cancelled due to security threats, after the police received letters of opposition. Truschke has regularly come under severe criticism from Hindu right-wing nationalists, who see her academic research into India’s complex multicultural past and religious history as an affront to their beliefs. She has written three books on the subject-Culture of Encounters, on Sanskrit in the Mughal courts Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth which argues for a reassessment of the Mughal king and the recently published Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim rule. Truschke’s research focuses on the history of early and modern India. Audrey Truschke is an associate professor of South Asian history at the Rutgers University in New Jersey, in the United States.
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