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 Orissa 1920–1950 (1993), Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800–1997 (2001) and Identity, Hegemony, Resistance: Towards a Social History of Conversions in India 1800–2000 (2003). He has edited Turbulent Times: India 1940–44 (1998) and Issues in Modern Indian History: For Sumit Sarkar (2000) and co-edited Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (2001).
