Usha Sanyal is an Indian scholar and historian of Islam specializing in the Barelvi movement.
She was a visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina.
[citation needed] Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi.
[2][better source needed] Sanyal's research includes a knowledge of the English, French, and Hindi-Urdu Languages.
[citation needed] Sanyal has authored five books: Devotional Islam and Politics in British India received a positive review from the scholar and translator of South Asian literature Aditya Behl in The Journal of Religion.