Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is the Founder-Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. He was also Reserve Bank of India Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for S

Vivek Chibber

Neetha N.

Neetha N. is Professor and Acting Director at the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi. Before joining CWDS, she was Associate Fellow and Coordinator, Centre for Gender and Lab

Valerian Rodrigues

Valerian Rodrigues is currently Ambedkar Chair, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). His recent books include The Essential Writings of B.R. Ambedkar (2002), The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Wo

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

Vidya Shah

Vidya Shah is a musician from New Delhi, India. Initially trained in Carnatic music, she later received guidance in the north-Indian genres of Khayal (from Shubha Mudgal and Mujahid Hussain Khan),

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

Tejaswini Niranjana

Tejaswini Niranjana is currently Professor and Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor with the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University

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

Alka Acharya

Alka Acharya is Professor, Centre for East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was Director and Senior Fellow at the Insti

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

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

Aijaz Ahmad

Aijaz Ahmad is a Marxist philosopher, literary theorist and political commentator. He is currently the Chancellor's Professor at the UC Irvine School of Humanities' Department of Comparative Litera

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

Paritosh Sen

Born in Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) in 1918, Paritosh Sen studied art at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Madras, and at Andre Lhote's School, Academy Grand Chamier, Ecole de Beaux Arts a

I.K. Sarma

I.K. Sarma has a PhD in archaeology from the University of Pune. He has worked at excavations in Nagarjunakonda, Kalibangan, Paiyanpalli, Pauni, Surkotada, and directed the excavations at Gudimalla

Romi Khosla

Romi Khosla is an architect whose desgin studio is in Delhi. He graduated in economics from Cambridge University, worked with Price Waterhouse in London and then graduated at the Architectural Asso

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

Gautam Bhatia

Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982)

Samir Amin

Samir Amin (1931–2018) is a reputed author of numerous books. He was an active and committed intellectual associated with liberation movements of Asia and Africa during the Bandung era (1955–19

Rajeev Dhavan

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

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

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