Chitralekha Zutshi (born 1972)[1] is a historian of Kashmir and an endowed chair Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, USA.
[3] Yoginder Sikand, reviewing for Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society commended the research and agreed with Zutshi's arguments.
[4] 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.
[3][5][6][7] Her second monograph was Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies and the Historical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014).
[8][9][10][11] In 2018, she published an edited volume on Kashmir (Cambridge University Press) to favorable reviews.