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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

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

A Delhi-based practising architect, Gautam Bhatia graduated in fine arts and did his post-graduation in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of several national and inte

Rana P. Behal

Rana P. Behal taught history at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi. He has also held teaching assignments at Cornell University, Syracuse University and Oberlin College. He was a fellow at Nehru

Uma Chakravarti

Uma Chakravarti taught history at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her publications include Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation (joint editor, 1987), The Social Dimensions of Early B

R. Sundara Rajan

The late R. Sundara Rajan was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Poona, Pune, Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and Senior Fellow at the Indian Council of Philosophic

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Jomo K.S. was Professor in the Applied Economics Department, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, and Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, befor

Pradip Kumar Datta

Pradip Kumar Datta is the author of Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal (1999) and one of the co-authors of Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flag: A Critique of the Hindu Rig

Ashok Mitra

Ashok Mitra had a fabulous academic career, including a brilliant PhD under Jan Tinbergen, and held important offices in the economic administration of India; he was Chairman of the Agricultural Pr

Rimli Bhattacharya

Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur and Brown Universities. She has published on gender and performance, primary education, children's literature and expressive forms

Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur is a Delhi-based art critic and curator. Her essays on alternative modernisms, contemporary art practice and curatorial interventions in India and the global South are widely anthologiz

Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 15561707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982)

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

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

Utsa Patnaik

Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she taught economics from 1973 until retiring in 2010. She has published extensively on problems of peasant trans

Sitharamam Kakarala

Sitharamam Kakarala has worked with the law and culture programme at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bengaluru. He has been involved in a range of pedagogic and research act

Vivek Chibber

Vivek Chibber is Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University.

Vikas Rawal

Vikas Rawal is Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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

Amalendu Guha

Amalendu Guha was an eminent historian whose work covers twentieth-century Afghanistan, medieval Assam, and from the saga of the early Parsi capitalists to tribal unrest in post-colonial Northeast

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

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

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

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

Suchetana Chattopadhyay

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

Kaushik Bhaumik

Kaushik Bhaumik is Associate Professor in Cinema Studies at the School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Until recently he was Deputy Director of the Osian's-Cinefan Fe

Venkatesh Athreya

Venkatesh Athreya, a chemical engineer-turned-development economist, served as Professor of Economics at Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, for nearly three decades. His earlier works include Ba

Devi Prasad

Devi Prasad – potter, educationalist, peace-activist, photographer, painter – graduated in 1944 from Kala Bhavana, Rabindranath Tagore's art school in Santiniketan, where he had the good fort

A.G. Noorani

A.G. Noorani is Advocate, Supreme Court of India, and a leading constitutional expert and political commentator. He is a regular columnist for Frontline and the author of numerous books, including:

Alladi Memorial Trust

The Alladi Memorial Trust was founded in 1983 by Alladi Kuppuswami to commemorate the birth centenary of his father, the late Dr Alladi Krishnaswamy. The objects of the Trust include holding lectur

Sashi Kumar

Sashi Kumar is a journalist, broadcaster, documentary and feature filmmaker, media thinker and initiator. He launched the Asianet satellite television channel and cable network in the early 1990s.

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

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.

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