Dr. Diki Sherpa, is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, School of Social Sciences, FLAME University, India. She holds a Ph.D. in History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong where she explored how governing practices were transferred and adapted across the British Empire, tracing the circulation of administrative models from colonial India to early Hong Kong. At FLAME, her current research focuses on colonial gazetteers as historical sources, exploring how they reflected the evolving role of knowledge production in India after 1857. By examining colonial political debates, epistemological anxieties, and shifting definitions of knowledge, her work investigates how ideological transformations under Crown rule influenced the structures and purposes of knowledge. Her broader research interests span imperial history and colonial history, Knowledge production, South and East Asian history.