Soumen Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research interests are in the fields of socio-religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia, with particular focus on questions of identity, religious normativity and social service, sacred travels and sacred space, and on the intersection of religious traditions and scientism. He is also interested in histories of South Asian diasporas and religious networks on the Indian Ocean, and in understanding religious and cultural encounters on the Himalayan borderlands.