Meena Bhargava taught History at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India. She is a historian of medieval and early modern South Asia. Her areas of research include Mughal history, agrarian history, and land rights in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India, environmental history, and the history of narcotics and drugs. Her most recent publications include the co-edited volume The Early Modern in South Asia: Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History (2022).