Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1 November 1945 – 20 August 2013) was a medical doctor and rationalist from Maharashtra. To help eradicate superstition, he founded in 1989 the Maharashtra Andhashr
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
David G. Cooper (1931-1986) was a psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. He moved to London, wh
Kamran Asdar Ali is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted ethnographic research in Mexico, Egypt and Pa
