Dr. P.C. Joshi was an eminent scholar who was widely recognized for his multidisciplinary approach to social science research as well as his role as policy advisor, social activist and writer. He has been associated with the Planning Division of the Indian Statistical Institute (1955-57), the Delhi School of Economics (1957-62), and the Institute of Economic Growth (1962-91) as Professor and then the last four years as Director. He continues to actively write on economic, social and cultural policy as well as on Hindi literature and poetry. A leading contributor to development and social change studies in India, he is the author of 17 studies in English and 12 studies in Hindi.
Kamran Asdar Ali is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted ethnographic research in Mexico, Egypt and Pa
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of the monograph, Given to the Goddess: South Indian Deva
Aneesh Pradhan had a liberal and
encouraging familial upbringing, which was coupled with an intensive period of study under the illustrious tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh. His training with this veritabl
