Saba Dewan
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Saba Dewan
Saba Dewan is a documentary film-maker. Her documentaries have focused on issues of gender, sexuality and culture. This is her first book and has emerged from her trilogy of films on stigmatised women performers: Delhi–Mumbai–Delhi (2006) about the lives of bar dancers; Naach (The Dance, 2008) on women dancers in rural fairs and The Other Song (2009) about the art and lifestyle of the tawaifs or courtesans. The research and writing of the book was supported by a fellowship from the New India Foundation. Saba lives in Gurgaon.
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Wandana Sonalkar
Wandana Sonalkar is a retired Professor of Women's Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
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Archana Varma
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Harry Cleaver
Henry Cleaver teaches Marxism and Marxist Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Texas. In recent years he has written extensively on and around the Zapatista Movement. His&nb
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Frederick Engels
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of t
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Michel Beaud
Michel Beaud is the retired professor of economics at University of Paris VIII at Vincennes. He is author of several books, including Socialism Tested by History and The Mirage of Growth: The Polit
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Tanya Singh
Tanya Singh is an independent scholar and writer. She has formerly worked as an assistant professor at Kalindi College, University of Delhi, for over five years and later briefly at Avvaiyar Govern
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Deepa Bhasthi
Deepa Bhasthi is a writer based in Bengaluru. She occasionally works on contemporary art projects. Her research interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, land/landscape and food politics.
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