Devika Rangachari

Dr Devika Rangachari is an award-winning Indian writer whose Queen of Ice was on the White Raven list, won the Neev Young Adult Book Award, was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Puraskar, has been optioned for a movie and is part of the Penguin Classics series. Her other books include The Mauryas, Queen of Fire (Parag Honour List 2022); Queen of Earth (Parag Honour List 2021; shortlisted for the Neev, Sahitya Akademi and the JK AutHer Awards); The Train to Tanjore (shortlisted for the Neev Award); 10 Indian Monarchs Whose Amazing Stories You May Not Know; Tales of Love and Adventure; Swami Vivekananda—A Man with a Vision; Harsha Vardhana; The Merry Mischief of Gopal Bhand; The Wit of Tenali Raman and Growing Up (on the IBBY Honour List 2002). She was also the recipient of a prestigious national fellowship awarded by the ministry of culture to research aspects of gender and historical fiction in Indian children’s literature.

Devika also writes narrative non-fiction for adults based on her doctoral and post-doctoral research on gender in Indian history. Her academic works include From Obscurity to Light: Women in Early Medieval Orissa (Seventh to Twelfth Centuries ad) and Invisible Women, Visible Histories: Gender, Society and Polity in North India (Seventh to Twelfth Century AD). She has also published widely in academic journals, participated in national and international academic conferences, and been the recipient of several prestigious academic fellowships.