Brian Keith Axel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures, also publishe
Yasmin Saikia is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of the Swargadeos at the Crossroads of A
Vrinda Marwah is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. She has worked in various capacities with the Delhi-based Sama, a resource group for women a
Gauri Deshpande (1942-2003) bilingual poet, essayist and short story writer in Marathi and English, has been published extensively in both languages. Her fluency in them has earned her the reputati
Dilip M. Menon is Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of The Blindness of Insight and Caste, Nationalism and Communism in So
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was among the greatest short story writers of the Indian subcontinent. He also wrote plays, and worked in the Bombay film industry as a writer before migrating t
