Chandrava Charkravarty is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University; her interests are the complex connections between gender construction, identity and nation-building in various forms of canonical and non-canonical texts. Among her recent books is Gendering the Nation: Identity Politics and the English Stage of the Long Eighteenth Century (2013). Recent articles are ‘The “King” in Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama’, in the Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama, A. Bhattacharya and M. Renganathan, eds (2015); ‘Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohan Roy, an Indian Transnationalist’, in The Idea of Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment, Kevin Cope, ed. (forthcoming).
Kalpana Kannabiran is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women, Secunderabad, and teaches sociology and law at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. With Vasant Kannabiran, she has co-au
Hannan Mollah is the General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha. He is a former Member of Parliament, having been elected eight times to the Uluberia constituency in Howrah district of West Ben
Darko Suvin, a prominent Marxist scholar andpoet born in erstwhile Yugoslavia, has contributed immensely in the field of Marxist literary theory and aesthetics. He has engaged with the question of
Kazim Ali’s many books include poetry, essay, fiction and translation. His most recent book of poetry is All One’s Blue: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins India). He is a professor of creative
Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–1898) was one of the architects of modern India and the founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, which later became the Aligarh Muslim University.
Paula Banerjee is Associate Professor, Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta; and President, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. She is an expert on Indo
