Arpita Mitra is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol. She has a PhD in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, from 2015 to 2017. Her areas of interest are Indian intellectual history, Ramakrishna–Vivekananda Studies, Vedanta, the history of Hinduism, history writing in colonial India, Sister Nivedita, Indian nationalist thought, and Indian national movement.