Eugenia Vanina has been on the faculty of the Centre for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences since 1985. Professor Vanina's publications in English include: Ideas and Society in India from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries (1996, 2nd edn 2004), Urban Crafts and Craftsmen in Medieval India (Thirteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) (2004), and two edited volumes: Indian History: A Russian Viewpoint (2003) and, with D. N. Jha, Mind over Matter: Essays on Mentalities in Medieval India (2009).
