Himadri Banerjee

Himadri Banerjee holds the chair of Guru Nanak Professor of Indian History at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His published work includes Agrarian Society of the Punjab: 18

Krishna Mohan Shrimali

Krishna Mohan Shrimali was Professor of History at the University of Delhi. He is the author of A History of Pañcala, 2 vols (1983, 1985); Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Decc

C.P. Chandrasekhar

C.P. Chandrasekhar taught economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest include the role of finance and industry in devel

Rustom Bharucha

Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and dramaturge based in Calcutta. He was Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru

Vijay Kumar Thakur

Late Vijay Kumar Thakur was Professor of History, Patna University, and author of Urbanisation in Ancient India (1981) and Historiography of Indian Feudalism (1989).

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and a critic and writer on cinema, art and culture. He is author and editor (with Paul Wil

Shireen Moosvi

Shireen Moosvi was Professor of History at Aligarh Muslim University. A well-known historian, she has published books and papers on Indian economic and social history of Mughal times and the ninete

Aparajita Bakshi

Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur is an independent art critic and curator living in New Delhi. Her extensive publications on modern Indian art include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), and exhibition catalogues an

Joel Kovel

Arpita Singh

David Ellerman

Suhita Sinha Roy

Suhita Sinha Roy (1949–2010) taught history in Jhargram Raj College, Chandernagore College and Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University, from 1979 to 2009. She was educated in Visva-Bharati U

Uma Rani

Uma Rani holds a PhD in economics from University of Hyderabad. She specializes in Labour and Institutional Economics, and has recently joined the International Institute of Labour Studies, ILO, Ge

Marie-Monique Robin

Partho Datta

Alice Thorner

The late Alice Thorner, editor of this volume, had been studying, teaching and writing on the economic and social history of South Asia since 1940. She was co-author, with her husband Daniel Thor

Vivekanand Jha

Late Vivekanand Jha was Director, Indian Council of Historical Research, edited the Indian Historical Review (20 vols, 1974–1994), making it India’s most substantive historical journal. He also

Sumangala Damodaran

Sumangala Damodaran is an economist and a musician, involved in teaching and research in economics, development studies and popular music studies at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). She has undert

Barnita Bagchi

Barnita Bagchi obtained a BA in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, an MA from St Hilda's College, University of Oxford (where she was a Hewitt Exhibitioner), and a PhD fro

Nausheen Jaffery

Nausheen Jaffery was a historian trained at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia. Her book, Jahan Ara Begum: A Biographical Study (1614–1681) was published in 2011.

Gary A. Dymski

Gary A. Dymski is currently Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside. He is also the founder Director of the University of California Center, Sacramento (UCCS). His books i

Amit Kumar Gupta

Amit Kumar Gupta has been researching and writing on issues of modern Indian history for several years now. His publications include North-West Frontier Province Legislature and the Freedom Struggl

Jun-ichi Okabe

Kumkum Sangari

Kumkum Sangari worked as a UGC Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and is the William F. Vilas Research Professor of English an

K. N. Panikkar

K.N. Panikkar was Professor of Modern History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has written extensively on the cultural and intellectual history of co

Rajeev Dhavan

Sumanta Banerjee

Born and educated in Culcutta, Sumanta Banerjee specializes in research on popular culture and the social history of nineteenth-century Bengal. His published works include The Parlour and the Stre

P. Chandramohan

P. Chandramohan did his Master's in History from Calicut University, Kerala, and pursued his research on the Social and Cultural History of Modern Travancore at the Centre for Historical Studies, J

Ira Bhaskar

J.S. Grewal

J.S. Grewal, formerly Professor of History and then Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is an eminent historian of the Si

Nyla Ali Khan

Nyla Ali Khan is Visiting Professor at Rose State College, former lecturer at the University of Oklahoma, and former professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA; she is the granddaughter o

Michael T. Clark

Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

Bhairabhi Prasad Sahu teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is the author of From Hunters to Breeders: Faunal Background of Early India (1988), and has edited Land System an