Alexander Rabinowitch is Professor Emeritus of Russian history at Indiana University, author of Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising, and co-editor of Russia i
Aruna Chakravarti, formerly the Principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, is a well-known writer and translator. She has received several prestigious literary awards including
Clarinda Still is a social anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford. Her work has mainly focused on Dalits in Andhr
Ashapurna Debi was born in 1909. Her conservative family did not send her to school, but encouraged by her mother, she learnt to read and write on her own and published her first poem in the childrenâ
SHASHI DESHPANDE has written novels, short stories, essays and children's books. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for That Long Silence. The most recent
Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political
