Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein (b. 1930) is an American sociologist best known for his 'world-systems' approach to understanding world history which suggests that the world is a system that benefits come countries (the core) by exploiting others (the periphery).

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Erik S. Reinert

Erik S. Reinert is professor of technology governance and development strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and heads The Other Canon Foundation in Norway.

Aruni Kashyap

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).

K. J. Joy

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John Hutnyk

John Hutnyk is a writer with 5 single author books: The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996 Zed); Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Indus

R.V. Bhavani

R.V. Bhavani is Director, Agriculture Nutrition Health Programme at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai.

Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 15561707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982)

Brian Pollitt

Brian Pollitt has worked in Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua. His later research has focused on problems of transition in socialist economies. He has held teaching and research positions at the Universiti

Krishna Bharadwaj

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein

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