Akansha previously earned her M.A. in Medieval History from the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and her B.A. (Hons.) in History from the University of Delhi. Her research focuses on the political culture of Afghans in early modern South Asia, with particular interest in state-craft, religion, identity, warfare, and migration. She is, with Nahid Morshedlou, the co-editor of Kholasat-ul Ansab (Har-Anand Publications, Delhi, 2024). She is a recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship (2023-24). Akansha has presented her research work in conferences at IIT Guwahati, Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar (Indonesia), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jagiellonian
University (Poland), University of Guelph (Canada), and University of St Andrews (Scotland). She is a Post Graduate Member of the Royal Historical Society, London. Akansha knows English, Hindi, Urdu, and Persian and is currently learning Pashto and Sanskrit.