Jothibai Pariyadath, the transcriber of Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham, is an acclaimed Malayalam poet, writer and translator. She published her first poetry collection, Pesamadantha, in 2009, and has translated the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky into Malayalam as Mayakovskyude Kavithakal (2012). She received the Coimbatore Kerala Cultural Centre’s literary prize for 2012. Her blog, Kavyam Sugeyam, featuring her recitations of more than five hundred Malayalam poems, is hugely popular.
Meera Kosambi, who has edited this volume, is a sociologist. Her several books include Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History (2007), and Women Writing Gender: Marathi Fiction Before I
Feryal Ali Gauhar read Political Economy at McGill University. She trained in documentary film production in Europe and at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, The Scent of Wet E
Anirudh Deshpande is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. He is co-editor, along with Partha Sarathi Gupta, of The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1
Debasree De is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Maharaja Srischandra College, University of Calcutta. She has a PhD in history from Jadavpur University. She has many contributions in journa
