Aloka Parasher-Sen completed her education with a Ph.D. (1978) from the SOAS, University of London. She has taught History at the University of Hyderabad since 1979 and for short durations at the University of California (1992), Berkeley, the Sudasien Institut, Universitat Heidelberg (2007) and the University of Alberta (2008-2011). Her major publications are in the social history of the excluded castes and the history and archaeology of the Deccan.