Shereen Ratnagar
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Shereen Ratnagar
Shereen Ratnagar gave up her Professorship in Archaeology at the JNU when it ceased to be fun and has since been researching and teaching in various places. Her interests include the bronze age, trade, urbanism, pastoralism, and, recently, the social dimensions of early technology.
- Understanding HarappaINR 650
This slim volume is an attempt to rouse the interest of students and non-specialists in the early civilization of the Indus valley and adjoining regions of Pakistan and India. The challenges of arc...
- Makers and Shapers: Early Indian Technology in the Home, Village and Urban WorkshopINR 625This is a study of technology as self-help endeavour in the home and the provisioning of the household; as work in the rural workshop that supplies pots or iron tools for the village; and as technique...
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Radha Chakravarty
Radha Chakravarty teaches literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity. Her books in
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Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar has specialised in early Indian history and has written extensively on the many aspects of the past. Her books include Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas; From Lineage to State; Hi
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Praveen Swami
PRAVEEN SWAMI is the recipient of the Sanskriti Award for his reporting of the Kargil war.
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Dorothy M. Figueira
Dorothy M. Figueira is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Exotic: A Decadent Quest and Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in
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M.R. SHARAN
M.R. SHARAN grew up in Manipal in Karnataka, then a quiet university town sandwiched between the hills andthe sea. He loves reading, cricket, writing, music and quantitative research on development
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Devaki Jain
Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne’s College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecture