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).
Harkishan Singh Surjeet (23 March 1916 - 1 August 2008) was a veteran Communist leader, one of the core that formed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964 serving as its General Secretary f
