Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery are both Professors in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Their recent books include Don't Marry Me to a Plowman: Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India (Westview Press and Vistaar, 1996) and Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German Marxist poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East B
NINAN KOSHY served as Director, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches (WCC), Geneva, from 1981 to 1991 and earlier as its Executive Secretary for seven year
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
Anand Chakravarti retired as Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi in 2006. He held the S.K. Dey Chair in Local Government at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, from July 2013
Saeed Mirza, author and filmmaker, is a pioneer of the ‘New Wave’ progressive cinema in India. All his films have won major awards, including the National Film Awards. He is the director of the
Imre Bangha, a Ph.D. in Hindi from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, is Associate Professor of Hindi, University of Oxford. He works on Old Hindi literature and on the Hungarian reception of Tagore.
