Chhanda Chatterjee is Professor and Director, Centre for Guru Nanak Dev Studies and Programme Coordinator, UGC SAP DRS II of the Department of History at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal. Her earlier publications include Ecology, the Sikh Legacy and the Raj Punjab, 1849-1887 (1997), Ideology, the Rural Power Structure and Imperial Rule: Awadh and Punjab, 1858-1887 (1999), and Rabindranath Tagore and the Sikh Gurus: A Search for an Indigenous Modernity (2014).