Rita Kothari (born 30 July 1969) is an author and translator who writes in both Gujarati and English. She teaches at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad. Her publications on literary sociology of Gujarat and translation include Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English, Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Coral Island: Poems by Niranjan Bhagat, Angaliyat (a Gujarati Dalit novel). Her forthcoming book is called 'Stigmatised Identities: The Sindhis of Gujarat'.
Teodor Shanin (b. 1930) is an eminent British sociologist and a former Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Moscow Schoo
Ajay Dandekar is the Director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) and Center for Public Affairs and Critical Theory (C-PACT), and a faculty member at the Department of History, S
Samir Kumar Das is Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal. A Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata (now on lien) he is a member and an Honorary Senior Resear
