Neelima Shukla-Bhatt is a professor of Religion and South Asia Studies at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, a premier institution of higher education for women in the USA. She obtained her master’s and Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University in 2003.
She is the author of Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat: A Legacy of Bhakti in Songs and Stories (Oxford University Press, 2015), Hinduism, the Basics(Routledge, 2023), and co-author with Surendra Bhana of A Fire that Blazedin the Ocean: Gandhi and Poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909-1911 (Promilla,2011).
She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed books and journals focusing mainly on devotional poetry of Narasinha Mehta and Meerbai, Gandhi’s work and thought,and Hindu women’s religious expressions such as garbā of Gujarat.