Sho Kuwajima is Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He studied at the Indian School of International Studies in 1962-66, and was Senior Fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research in 1988-90. He is the author of Muslims, Nationalism and the Partition: 1946 Provincial Elections in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1998, and The Mutiny in Singapore: War, Anti-War and the War for India's Independence, Rainbow Publishers, New Delhi, 2006. He has also translated Swami Sahajanand Saraswati's Kisan Sabha ke Sansmaran (in Hindi) into Japanese, Sagano Shoin, Kyoto, 2002, and recorded his interview with an Indian peasant leader in 1966 as Sakshatkar: Bihar ke Kisan Neta Pandit Jadunandan Sharma se Batchit (in Hindi), Pratyaksh Prakashan, Patna, 2006. Besides, he is the editor of Life, Freedom and War: Twentieth Century South Asia, Aakar Books, Delhi 2010.
Martin Kämpchen, a Ph.D. in German Literature from Vienna and Comparative Religions from Visva-Bharati, is an author, biographer, researcher and translator of Tagore.
Kamal Nayan Kabra (1941) Professor of Economics (1980-2003), Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Chair Professor (2010-17), Institute of Social Sciences
Ritty A. Lukose is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. She is the author of Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship
Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005) was a German-American economist and historian. He held many teaching appointments in various universities across the world and authored over 40 books in his lifetime.
