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Sandipan Baksi

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T.K. Venkatasubramanian

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Suvira Jaiswal

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Bhairabi Prasad Sahu

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Arindam Banerjee

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Krishna Mohan Shrimali

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Noam Chomsky

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B. Rajendra Prasad

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Sumanta Banerjee

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Prabhat Patnaik

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Rimli Bhattacharya

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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.

Barnita Bagchi

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Timur Kuran

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K. N. Panikkar

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