Ricardo Antunes

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K.N. Panikkar

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Antonio Gramsci

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Sitharamam Kakarala

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Romila Thapar

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E.M.S. Namboodiripad

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Sirpa Tenhunen

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

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Peter Hudis

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Devaki Jain

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Rai Mohan Pal

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Howard Zinn

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Mao Tse-tung

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Pinarayi Vijayan

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G.P. Deshpande

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