The idea to work on a topic of Socio - economic importance pertaining to Kerala was suggested to me by Monsieur Louis Dumont , professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and then executive director of the Centre d'etudes Indiennes, Paris , to which I was attached during October 1969 to June 1971 . It was while going through the files of the India Office Library,London , in this connection that I came across an old and not much used file titled, " Abolition of Slavery in Kerala " . It posed a series of question to me , which went far beyond the abolition of slavery.
Shashank Kela worked as an activist in a trade union of Adivasi peasants in western Madhya Pradesh between 1994 and 2004. A Rouge and Peasant Slave is his first book.
Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) is a novelist and playwright. He is the author of Ravan & Eddie (1995) and Cuckold (1997) for which he won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Ramnika Gupta is founder and President of Ramnika Foundation, member of the CPI(M), a tribal rights champion, former trade union leader, politician, writer and editor. She is the coordinator of the
A.R. Vasavi, a Social Anthropologist, was formerly a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. Her academic interests are in the field of sociology of India, agrarian stud
