Abraham Eraly (15 August 1934 - 8 April 2015) was the author of four acclaimed volumes on premodern Indian history — The Last Spring: The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals (later published in two volumes, as Emperors of the Peacock Throne and The Mughal World), Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilisation, The First Spring: The Golden Age of India and The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate. He was born in Kerala and educated there and in Chennai. During his lifetime, he taught Indian history in colleges in India and the United States and was the editor of a current affairs magazine for several years.
Piya Chatterjee is a faculty member in the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA. She is the author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor an
Subhabrata Bhattacharyya is Head of the Department, Journalism and Mass Communication, and also teaches English at Surendranath College, Calcutta University.
Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable in Andhra Pradesh. She studied physics at the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, and was later a researcher in applied physics at the Indian Institute of
