Ramchandra Singh (1949–2018), of Bangarmau village in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh, was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star and served on its Central Committee. He was part of the editorial board of Red Star Monthly (Hindi). He passed away when this book was in press.
Vinod Kumar Mishra is Associate Fellow, IIDS, New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a specialization in population geography.
Alex Akhup belongs to the Kom society. His research interests include epistemology, lived experiences, worldviews, narratives, history writing and ecology studies.
Shray Mehta is a qualitative sociologist and an ethnographer. He researches democratic politics with a focus on historical and political sociology. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Department
