E.M.S. NAMBOODIRIPAD (1909–1998) was among India’s pioneering Communist leaders and a Marxist theoretician of enormous stature. He became Chief Minister of Kerala on two occasions, in 1
L. N. Venkataraman is an Assistant Professor at TERI School of Advanced Studies in New Delhi and the author of The Social Construction of Capabilities in a Tamil Village. Before joining TERI SAS, he w
Ananya Vajpeyi is the author of the award-winning, Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India. She works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critica
Thomas R. Trautmann is an American historian and a Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He has published many works including&n
Pinarayi Vijayan (born 1945) is the Chief Minister of Kerala. He served as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operation from 1996 to 1998. He joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964. H
Krupa Shandilya is an Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. She is the author of the monograph Intimate Relations:
