Shashi Joshi

Shashi Joshi

Shashi Joshi is former Senior Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. A Ph.D. in History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr. Joshi began her career as a senior lecturer in History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has also been a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. From 1983 to 1987, she was co-director of the 'History of the Indian National Congress, 1885–1947'—a project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).