Jyoti Phulerahas a Ph.D., an M.Phil. and an M.A. in History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a B.A. (hons.) in the same subject from I.P. College for Women, University of Delhi. Her research interests include gender history, medieval north India, Delhi Sultanate, Sufism, Queenship and aspects of female leadership. She was awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council for Historical Research (2016), the I.C.H.R. Foreign Travel Grant to participate in an International Conference on ‘Gender Politics and Agency’, University of Winchester, U.K. (2016), the Junior Research Fellowship in History (2018-2020) and the Senior Research Fellowship in History (2020-2022) by the University Grants Commission (U.G.C.)