Aloka Parasher Sen is a historian who graduated from the Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, and obtained her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has been Professor of History at the University of Hyderabad between 1979-2018, where she was also Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sanskrit Studies, 2018-2023.
In addition to her teaching career, Parasher Sen has also undertaken numerous academic assignments abroad, including being a DAAD Fellow at the Sudasien Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, Germany, Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, the first occupant of the Rotating Chair in Indian Studies at the Sudasien Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, Germany and the first occupant of the Saroj and Prem Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Polity and Society at the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada.
Her research interests include social history of early India, namely, ear
