Debjani Ganguly is Head of the Humanities Research Centre in the Research School of Humanities at the Australian National University. A literary and cultural historian, she has published in the areas of postcolonial studies, global Anglophone literatures, caste and Dalit studies, cultural histories of mixed-race, Gandhi and nonviolence and Indian literary criticism. Her recent publications are include Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual (Melbourne University Press, 2007) and Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality (Orient Blackswan and Routledge, 2007).
Aruni Kashyap is a writer from Assam who writes in both Assamese and English. He is the author of the novel The House With a Thousand Stories (Viking/Penguin, 2013).
Very little is known about the two secretaries of the embassy sent by Tipu Sultan to Constantinople, Khwaja Abdul Qadir, who wrote the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum, and Sayyid Jafar.
Inukonda Thirumali is a senior fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research and Chairman of Joint Action Committee of Telangana Praja Sanghalu.
