Senthil Babu D., is a historian of mathematics based at the French Institute of Pondicherry, in south India, where he is involved in studies concerning Nature, Knowledge and Labour. He is coordinating the research programme on the Social History of Vernacular Mathematical Practices in India.He has authored the book, Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in early modern South India, published by Oxford University Press in 2022. He is a member of the editorial board of the series, Verum Factum: Studies in Political Epistemology. He is a member of the Politically Mathematics Collective in India.