Aditi Sen

I am a historian of South Asian religion, sexuality, gender and food history. My recent research has been in the field of history of horror in South Asian cinema and popular culture. Drawing from a criminal case from 1892 in Bombay, my current project is on forensics in colonial India and the role it played in determining criminal cases.

My previous research was on The Rig Veda and The Atharva Veda—two essential texts from Ancient India that document orthodox and folk religion respectively