Abraham Eraly (15 August 1934 - 8 April 2015) was the author of four acclaimed volumes on premodern Indian history — The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals (later published in two volumes, as Emperors of the Peacock Throne and The Mughal World), Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilisation, The First Spring: The Golden Age of India and The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate. He was born in Kerala and educated there and in Chennai. During his lifetime, he taught Indian history in colleges in India and the United States and was the editor of a current affairs magazine for several years.
Felix Padel is an anthropologist and a Professor of Rural Management at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur. He is the author of Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Lan
Manoranjan Byapari was born in the mid-fifties in Barishal, former East Pakistan. His family migrated to West Bengal in India when he was three. They were resettled in Bankura at the Shiromanipur R
K. Srilata is a poet, fiction writer, translator and former professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Her first book of poems, Seablue Child, was published in 2000, followed by Arriv
Shipra Deo is a development practitioner for last 13 years. She has worked in the fields of community organisation, livelihoods promotion, women empowerment, literacy and leadership. She has provid
K. Satyanarayana is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at EFL University, Hyderabad, and the coeditor of two collections of Dalit writing from South India: From those Stubs, Steel Nibs Are Spr
