Raziuddin Aquil is associate professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. He was previously Fellow in history, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is the author of Lovers of God: Sufism and the Politics of Islam in Medieval India (2017) and Sufism, Culture, and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India (2007), and co-editor, with Partha Chatterjee, of History in the Vernacular (2008).