Eleanor Zelliot (1926-2016), in the 1960s, pioneered the study of the Dalit movement in India. She was Laird Bell Professor of History (1969-97) at Carleton College, Minnesota. She has written over eighty articles and edited three books on the Dalit movement, on saint-poets of the medieval period, on Dalit literature, and on the Ambedkar-inspired Buddhist movement. She is the author of Ambedkar's World, From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement and Untouchable Saints: An Indian Phenomenon.
Shahrzad Mojab is a Professor at the University of Toronto. Her essay draws from her introduction to Marxism and Feminism, a 2015 book that she edited.
Arindam Banerjee teaches economics at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi. His research and teaching interests are agrarian crisis, food security, bio-fuels, political
V.C. Harris, well-known writer and Professor of English at the School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, has translated (with C. K. Mohamed Ummer) a collection of Kamala Das's short f
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous articles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, New Left Review
MAUDE BARLOW and TONY CLARKE are long-term activists on trade and justice issues whose campaigning lives have intertwined for many years. With their working lives closely connected for many years,
