Sanchit Toor is interested in the questions of language, orality, religion, translation, and performance. Working with languages such as Hindi, Haryanvi, Brajbhasha, and Punjabi, he’s occupied with early modern and modern literary and religious communities in North India. He’s been a Visiting Faculty of Haryanvi and Brajbhasha at Ashoka University and has translated, in particular, Haryanvi women’s folk and devotional songs through the Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship. He continues to trace the words of Bhakti saints and their afterlives, with a forthcoming edited collection comprising translations of Kabir in several languages.

Sanchit graduated with a master’s degree with a concentration in South Asian literature from the Department of English at Ashoka University. He is an alumnus of the Young India Fellowship programme and holds a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience.