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Lars T. Lih

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K.B. Saxena

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Utsa Patnaik

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Carlos Martinez

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Ramakrishna Mukherjee

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Anthony Giddens

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Krishna Sobti

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Murzban Jal

Murzban Jal is Professor at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune and author of the Seductions of Karl Marx, Zoroastrianism: From Antiquity to the Modern Period an

Unnamati Syama Sundar

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Raymond Williams

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Tutun Mukherjee

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S. V. Rajadurai

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