Alka Acharya is Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is a Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies and Associate Editor of China Report.
English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats w
Kumkum Sangari, editor of the book, is William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, Ame
Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose research explores questions of colonialism and modernity, law and legalities, caste and community, evangelization and empire, and popular religion and subalt
Pranab Kanti Basu is presently on the faculty of the Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, where he teaches Marxian Economics. His previously published books are both in Bengali. The
Herbert Marcuse was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. Author of numerous books, Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Brandeis universities before his death in
