Dr. Sandeep K. Dasari holds M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in History from the Central University of Hyderabad and a Ph.D. from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He is currently the Head & Associate professor of History at Tagore Government Arts & Science College, Pondicherry. An active researcher, Dr. Dasari has organized five national seminars supported by UGC, ICHR, and ICSSR, and hosted the South India History Congress in 2016. He is the author of Mission, Medicine and Reform and Transgender: Stigma, Violence and Discrimination, and is the founder of the World History Congress, Puducherry (2022).