Koka Aleksandrovna Antonova (Russian: Ко́ка Алекса́ндровна Анто́нова; 10 [23] March 1910, Saint Petersburg – 3 February 2007, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet Indologist specializing in medieval and modern Indian history.

She went to school in Brighton, leaving with fluent command over English, French and German, to which she was later to add Urdu, Arabic, Spanish and Persian.

[3] After the war, she joined the Russian Academy's Fundamental Library of Social Sciences, where she edited a bibliographic publication New foreign literature on Orientalism, a massive effort annotating nearly 7000 works every year.

[7] This was criticised for not addressing increased trade despite reduced per capita production of commodities, the latter being a major factor in the formation of state power.

[8] Further, her interpretation of source material from the Epigraphia Indica was questioned: she claimed that land grants were made to temples and the priesthood, with no mention that brahmins – unattached to any temple – were the primary recipients of grants,[9] and that - unlike in European feudalism - there were no feudal dues from the recipient to the royal donor, nor any military service exacted.

[3] Critics appreciated the wealth of historico-social data and considerations upon feudalism, the attention to the general culture in the various periods of the Indian middle ages, as well as the remarkable pages dealing with the economic development of India in the early 19th century.