Alaka Atreya Chudal

Alaka Atreya Chudal is a scholar and writer whose work spans colonial history, vernacular literature, print culture, anthropology, and gender, with a focus on Nepal and North India. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna. She leads the Austrian Science Fund FWF project The Voice of the Voiceless: South Asian Soldiers under German Internment in the First World War (2025–2027). Her recent publications include The Swasthani Vrata Katha: A Secret Vow to the Goddess (co-authered with Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz), (2025); and Gorkhāli yudddhabandīkā lokbhākā rakathā (2021). Chudal lives and works in Vienna.