A History of the Transmission of Sanskrit in Britain and America, 1832-1939
Rajeshawari Mishka Sinha was educated at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, the University of Oxford, Emory University and the University of Cambridge. She was a Research Associate at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge from 2012 to 2013. Her article on the transnational translation of the Bhagavad Gītā was published in Modern Intellectual History in 2010, and in Kapila and Devji (eds.), Political Thought in Action: The Bhagavad Gita and Modern India (CUP, 2013). Her chapter on American Orientalism and Modern Scholarship, 1836-1894 will be published in Elmarsafy, Bernard, Atwell (eds.), Debating Orientalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Her research interests include the intellectual history of orientalism and the cross-cultural transmission of ideas, the transnational material and intellectual history of oriental publishing, the occult as a metamorphosing category of knowledge in the 19th century, and literary Modernism. She uses Bengali, English and Hindi as a native speaker and has studied Sanskrit and German at an advanced level.
In the framework of the Zukunftsphilologie program, Mishka is revising her doctoral thesis on the history of the transmission of Sanskrit in Britain and America, 1832-1939 for publication.
