Meenakshi Jain

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Meenakshi Jain is an Indian political scientist and historian who served as an associate professor of history at Gargi College, Delhi. Her areas of research include cultural and religious developments in medieval and early modern India. In 2014, she was nominated as a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research by the Government of India. In 2020, she was conferred with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for her work in the field of literature and education. Jain wrote Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse on the involvement of evangelicals and missionaries in exaggerating the number of Sati cases in colonial India. She had also authored a school history textbook, Medieval India, for NCERT, which replaced a previous textbook co-authored by historians such as Romila Thapar, and Satish Chandra. Meenakshi Jain was nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu on 12 July 2025.

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