Sumit Guha has a History PhD (1981) from the University of Cambridge. He is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books include Environment and Ethnicity in India, c.1200–1991 (1999), and Health and Population in South Asia from Earliest Times to the Present (2001).
Samer Al-Saber is assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Stanford University. He is a director and scholar of theatre in the Middle East.
Kamla Patel was born in 1912 and spent her early years in Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad. She participated in the civil disobedience movement and later in Gandhi's constructive progra
