Aparajita Bakshi

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

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

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

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

Sandipan Baksi

Sandipan Baksi is Programme Coordinator, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, Bengaluru.

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

Aparajita Bakshi is a development economist researching on rural incomes, livelihoods, socio-economic inequalities and rural transformation, and village-level statistical systems in India. She is Asso

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

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

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

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

Biswamoy Pati

Biswamoy Pati (late) taught at the Department of History, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. He is the author of Resisiting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Or

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

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

Deepak Kumar

Deepak Kumar teaches the history of science, society and education at the Zakir Husain Centre for Education Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Apart from contributing articles to vari

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)

Peter Custers

Peter Custers is a campaigner and writer with many publications to his credit. He is engaged in theoretical research alongside a commitment to social struggles and campaigns in Bangladesh and Western

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

Sitharamam Kakarala

Sitharamam Kakarla 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 acti

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

I.K. Sarma

I.K. Sharma 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 Gudimall

Malini Bhattacharya

Malini Bhattacharya was Professor of English and Director of the School of Women's Studies at Jadavpur University till her retirement in 2003. She was a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, from 1989 t

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alice Mah

Alice Mah is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK.

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

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

Dhruv Raina

Dhruv Raina teaches at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Images and Contexts: The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India (2003). He has published research pa

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

Ira Bhaskar

Ira Bhaskar is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Amar Farooqui

Amar Farooqui, is Professor of History, University of Delhi. He taught history for many years at Hans Raj College, Delhi; and has been Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His publ

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