Kumkum Sangari, editor of the book, is William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, American and Indian literature, critical theory, religious conversion, medieval oral devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as Gandhi and Annie Besant, Bombay cinema, televisual memory, and contemporary gender issues such as personal law, domestic labour, the beauty industry, sex selection, widow immolation and communal violence.
Naseeruddin Shah is a theatre actor and director, founder of the theatre company Motley, and a film actor. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, three N
Harold R. Isaacs was a writer and long-time student of Chinese affairs. The Tragedy, his first book, was based largely on long-hidden original historical documents and has been recognized for many
Vijay Kumar Thakur, Professor of History, Patna University, was the author of Urbanisation in Ancient India (1981), Historiography of Indian Feudalism (1989) and Social Dimensions of Technology: Iron
C.K. Johri is an economist, educated at the Universities of Allahabad and Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan). He spent the longest span of work at the Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations & Hum
Mathangi Subramanian is a writer, educator, and activist who believes that stories have the power to change the world. A former American public school teacher, assistant vice president at Sesame Wo
Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik are Professors Emerita and Emeritus respectively at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. They a
Michael E. Tigar is Edwin A. Mooers Scholar and Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University. Until 1998, he held the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Law at the University of Texas
