Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib is Professor Emeritus of History at the Aligarh Muslim University. He is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963, revised edition 1999), An Atlas o

Paul Amar

PAUL AMAR is associate professor in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Michael Perelman

Michael Perelman (born 1 October 1939) is an American economist and historian who teaches at California State University, Chico.

Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is a distinguished Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India. She is the author of numerous substantial books including the popular class

N.D. Rajkumar

Shivaji Das

Shivaji Das is a travel writer and photographer who also works as a management consultant in Singapore.

Sharmistha Saha

Sharmistha Saha is a faculty at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She has been a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow at the International Resear

Ravindra K. Jain

Educated at Lucknow University and the Australian National University, Canberra, Ravindra K. Jain taught social anthropology and sociology at Oxford (1966-74) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New D

Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and t

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

Late Professor Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya was an outstanding student of Indian philosophy in our times who was a self-proclaimed Marxist, itself unique. Until his death in 1993, he taught at the Cit

Abhishek Majumdar

Abhishek Majumdar is the founder and artistic director of Indian Ensemble. He is a playwright and theatre director and educator with numerous plays and accolades to his credit. His playwriting cred

Joseph Dietzgen

Born near Cologne in 1828, Joseph Dietzgen worked most of his life as a tanner. A self-educated man, he participated in the Revolution of 1848 where he first read the writings of Karl Marx and beca

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