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.
William Hinton (1919–2004) was a farmer in Vermont and a legendary figure in the U.S. Left. He wrote many books on post-revolutionary China, including Through a Glass Darkly, Iron Oxen, The G
Pradip Baksi (1948-), translator and editor of the first Bengali and English editions of these manuscripts (1994) and, of some texts of Rammohun Roy (1998), and of Karl Marx (1999) on India.
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
