Leela Gandhi is a renowned scholar whose contribution to postcolonial studies, literature, and political theory has made a lasting impact. A literary and cultural theorist, her research and teaching focus is on transnational literature, postcolonial theory and ethics, and the intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout her career, Gandhi has challenged conventional notions of identity, nationalism, and citizenship and has explored the complex legacies of colonial encounters, particularly transnational traditions of anti-imperial ethics.