Thomas R. Trautmann is an American historian and a Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He has published many works including Kautilya and the Arthasastra (1971), Kinship and History in South Asia (1974), Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship (1987), Languages and Nations: Conversations in Colonial South India (2002), and co-authored India: brief history of a civilization (2011).
Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was an Italian economist and sociologist. Some of his seminal works include The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994), Chaos and
Pradhan H Prasad (1928-2001) was professor of economics at A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna. His books include Growth with Full Employment (Allied, 1979), Lopsided Growth (Sameeksha Trust
SHASWATI MAZUMDAR teaches German at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi. Her research has included a focus on the German writer Bertolt Brecht. She has edited a coll
Swapna Liddle is a historian, and Convener of the Delhi chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). She is the author of Delhi: 14 Historic Walks and
Jeemol Unni is a professor of economics at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. Her recent books are Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment (2003), c
