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 Struggle 1932–47 (1976), Between a Tory and a Liberal: Bombay under Sir James Fergusson 1880–85 (1978), and The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India 1934–51(1996).

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Ruth Rosengarten

Ruth Rosengarten is an artist and writer. She lives and works in England. She received her PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, and has lectured in South Africa, Portugal and Engl

Madhusree Dutta

Madhusree Dutta, the curator of Project Cinema City, is a filmmaker and executive director of Majlis. She curated the cultural component at World Social Forum, 2004 and 2007, and has conceived and

Somasundara Rao

Somasundara Rao, Professor (Retd.), obtained an MA (history and archaeology), MA (Hons) and PhD from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and specialized in the ancient and medieval history of Andhra Pra

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

Timur Kuran

Timur Kuran is currently Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He has been Professor of Economics and Law, and King Faisal

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

T.K. Venkatasubramanian

T.K. Venkatasubramaniam taught at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is the author of Political Change and Agrarian Tradition in South India, 1600–1800 (1986), Environment and Urb

Michael T. Clark

Michael T. Clark is Senior Coordinator (Policy and Governance) at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997), The Retreat to Unfreedom (2

Achin Vanaik

Achin Vanaik is a writer and social activist, a former Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, and a Delhi-based Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. He is the autho

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay was Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has written

Suchetana Chattopadhyay

Suchetana Chattopadhyay teaches history at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

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

Maya Gupta

Maya Gupta is the author of Lord William Bentinck in Madras and the Vellore Mutiny 1803–07 (1987), and has contributed numerous essays to journals and collection of articles.

Jandhyala B.G. Tilak

Jandhyala B.G. Tilak is Senior Fellow and Head, Educational Finance Unit, National Institute of Educational Planning and Development, New Delhi. His research interests are the economics of educatio

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

The late Sabyasachi Bhattacharya was formerly Professor of Economic History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal; and Chairman, Indian Cou

David Ellerman

David Ellerman is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Riverside.

Mrityunjay Tripathi

Mrityunjay Tripathi is Assistant Professor in the Hindi programme at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He has translated the autobiography of Mallikarjun Mansur into Hindi (Ras Yatra), and a Hind

Elisabeth Armstrong

Elisabeth Armstrong is an Associate Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of The Retreat from Organization:

S. Irfan Habib

S. Irfan Habib is historian of science and modern political history based in New Delhi. He was a scientist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi. He i

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

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

Praveen Kumar Jha

Praveen Kumar Jha is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) and an adjunct professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies (CISLS), School of S

Shereen Ratnagar

Trained in Indian and Western Asiatic archaeology, Shereen Ratnagar is the author of books and academic papers on the Indus civilization: its overseas trade, political organization, cities, and its

Suvira Jaiswal

Suvira Jaiswal is former Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her MA in History from Allahabad University and PhD from Patna University under the supervision of

Partho Datta

Partho Datta teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

G.P. Deshpande

G.P. Deshpande taught Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for thirty-five years. Apart from academic writings on China and international politics, he ran a regular colum

Richard Allen

Richard Allen is currently Dean and Chair Professor of Film and Media Art at School of Creative Media, City University. Previously he was Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School o

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

Amit Kumar Gupta

Amit Kumar Gupta

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