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G.S. Jayasree
G.S. Jayasree is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, and is Editor of Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies.
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Madhu Trivedi
Madhu Trivedi teaches history in the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi. She is the author of The Making of the Awadh Culture. She has published several research articles on a variety of
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James Clifford
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers in the world. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his
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Meera Kosambi
Meera Kosambi, who has edited this volume, is a sociologist. Her several books include Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History (2007), and Women Writing Gender: Marathi Fiction Before I![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Karl Korsch
Karl Korsch (1886-1961) was a prominent German Marxist theorist, writer, and revolutionary. He was a member of the German Communist Party until the 1920s, and went into exile in 1933, eventually re
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Manali Desai
Manali Desai is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newnham College, University of Cambridge.