Deepashree Dutta is a historian of early-modern India with specialisation in regional history, religious and literary studies. She has done both her MPhil (2019) and PhD (2024) from the< Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her PhD titled ‘ Zamindar-Rajas of Rahr Bengal: A Study on Politics, Socio-economic and Literary Culture from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries’ focusses on the political and literary culture of the little kingdom of Mallabhum (Bishnupur) in Bengal from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.Her PhD was supported by the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship, 2021- She has been a Visiting Faculty at the Department of History, Ashoka University, from 2024-2025. Her works have been published both in journals and as book chapters.