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Usha Sanyal | |
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Born | India |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | In the Path of the Prophet: Maulana Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and the Ahl-e Sunnat wa Jamaat Movement in British India, c. 1870-1921 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Southeast Asia |
Institutions | Wingate University |
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.[ citation needed ]
Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. [1]
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. [2] [ better source needed ]
Sanyal's research includes a knowledge of the English,French,and Hindi-Urdu Languages.[ citation needed ]
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". [5]
Her articles include: