Jasbir Jain (born 1937) is a writer and Honorary Director of the Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies, Jaipur. She is the recepient of many awards and fellowships and has authored several books including Theorising Resistance: Narratives in History and Politics (2012), Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency (2011), Beyond Postcolonialism: Dreams and Realities of a Nation (2006), and Gendered Realities, Human Spaces (2003).
Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017) and In the Shadows of the State, Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and In
