Chitralekha Zutshi (born 1972) [1] is a historian of Kashmir and an endowed chair Professor of History at the College of William & Mary, US. [2]
Zutshi received her doctorate in history from Tufts University. [2]
Her first monograph Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir was published by Permanent Black in 2003; subsequent reprints were published by C. Hurst & Co. and Oxford University Press. [2] The book traces the evolution of Kashmiriyat with time and drew significant praise. [3] Yoginder Sikand, reviewing for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society commended the research and agreed with Zutshi's arguments. [4] A review in the South Asia Research found Zutshi's to be pioneering scholarship that would be a must-read for any scholar working on Kashmir. [3] [5] [6] [7]
Her second monograph was Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). [2] It was reviewed over multiple journals. [8] [9] [10] [11]
In 2018, she published an edited volume on Kashmir (Cambridge University Press) to favorable reviews. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Her latest publication has been Kashmir: Oxford India Short Introductions. [2]