Thomas R. Trautmann is an American historian and a Professor Emeritus of History and Anthropology in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He has published many works including Kautilya and the Arthasastra (1971), Kinship and History in South Asia (1974), Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship (1987), Languages and Nations: Conversations in Colonial South India (2002), and co-authored India: brief history of a civilization (2011).
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History in the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She has previously taught at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), University of Calcutta and Visva-Bh
SHASHI DESHPANDE has written novels, short stories, essays and children's books. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for That Long Silence. The most recent
