Sumit Chakrabarti is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata. His areas of interest are literary theory, culture studies and nineteenth-century Benga
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)
