Dr Mishka Sinha

Position: Curator for Inclusive History

About

Mishka is a cultural and intellectual historian of 18^th – 20^th century global and imperial history. Her research interests include the histories of knowledge, scholarly disciplines, intellectual institutions, books, publishing, languages, and cultural and material heritage, in Europe, Asia and the United States. Mishka took her B.A. at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, her M.Phil at the University of Oxford, and her PhD at the University of Cambridge.

She has taught imperial and global history, South Asian history, and history writing at UK and continental European universities and held research fellowships at Berlin, Cambridge (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship), Florence (Max Weber), Oxford and Edinburgh. Mishka has several years of experience working in museums, arts and heritage in India, and has been an actor and performer on contemporary Indian art projects since 2003.

She is a co-curator of the exhibition, Untold Lives: A Palace at Work (2024).

Select publications

Sinha, M., ‘What is an Oriental Classic?’, in Intellectual History as Bricolage, eds. John-Erik Hansson and Marius Ostrowski (Palgrave, 2025).

Sinha, M., ‘Godown’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 40 (2017), 316-319.

Sinha, M., ‘Corrigibility, Allegory, Universality: A History of the Gita’s Transnational Reception, 1785-1944’, Modern Intellectual History, 7 (2010), 297-317