Dr Sayori Ghoshal holds a PhD in South Asian History from Columbia University, New York. She has around 9 years of experience, which includes her association with University of Toronto as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She is currently preparing her first book manuscript titled A Sense for Statistics: Constructing Religious Minority in Modern India, which traces the rise and impact of calculative reasoning in formation of community identity and difference in colonial and postcolonial India. Her research has been funded by the International Network for Research in Science and Belief in Society (INSBS), University of Birmingham. She has published in the Economic and Political Weekly and the History Compass, as well as in an edited volume, Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere.