Chitralekha Zutshi

Chitralekha Zutshi (born 1972) is an Indian historian of Kashmir and an endowed chair Professor of History at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.

Education Zutshi received her doctorate in history from Tufts University. A review in the South Asia Research found Zutshi's to be pioneering scholarship that would be a must-read for any scholar working on Kashmir.

Her second monograph was Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014).

In 2018, she published an edited volume on Kashmir (Cambridge University Press) to favorable reviews. Her latest publication has been Kashmir: Oxford India Short Introductions.