Rajeshwari Dutt

Rajeshwari Dutt is an Assistant Professor of History at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. She specializes in the history of nineteenth century Latin America and circum-Caribbean (in particular, Yucatán, Belize and Mosquito Shore). Her first monograph Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2017) examined the Maya headman as an evolving political figure in nineteenth century Yucatán. Her second monograph Empire on Edge: The British Struggle for Order in Belize during Yucatán’s Caste War is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She has published articles in The Americas, Ethnohistory and Hispanic American Historical Review.