Ratan Singh Manki

Ratan Singh Manki (1954) is from Kitahatu village in Soyko, Khunti. He matriculated from Khunti and worked in the H.E.C industrial plant, Hatia. He is well versed with the Munda tribe's rituals and

Sumangala Damodaran

Teacher, singer, activist and writer Sumangala Damodaran is known for her work on the musical tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), an outfit of leftist theatre artiste

Debasree De

Debasree De is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Maharaja Srischandra College, University of Calcutta. She has a PhD in history from Jadavpur University. She has many contributions in journa

Sukomal Sen

Sukomal Sen (14 June 1934 – 22 November 2017) was the author of Working Class of India, the history of its emergence and rise, and also the famous work, International Working Class Movement, an

Maria Montessori

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician and educator. She is known most remembered for the Montessori method of educating young children used by many educators across

Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib is Professor Emeritus of History at the Aligarh Muslim University. He is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963, revised edition 1999), An Atlas o

Anupama Rao

Anupama Rao has research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology; social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human righ

Kevin Morgan

Kevin Morgan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of many books on labour movement history, including the Bolshevism and the British L

T.M. Thomas Isaac

T.M. Thomas Isaac is the Minister of Finance of Kerala, an office he previously served from 2006 to 2011. Author of numerous academic papers and books, he was Professor at the Centre for Developme

P. Govinda Pillai

P. Govinda Pillai (b. 1926) was born in Perumbavoor in the Ernakulam district of Kerala. Leaping into the country’s freedom movement during his student days, Pillai graduated from St. Xavier&

Josef Steindl

Josef Steindl (1912-1993) received his doctorate in economics from the Vienna Hochschule für Welthandel (now the Economic University) in 1935. Influenced by Austro-Marxism, he was am

Ajay Gudavarthy

Ajay Gudavarthy is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Ajay Gudavarthy taught earlier as Assistant Professor at the National Law Schoo

D.N. Jha

D.N. Jha is an acclaimed historian and the author of Early India: A Concise History (2004).

Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser was a philosopher born in Algeria in 1918. He died in France in 1990. His other publications in English include For Marx, Politics and History, and On Ideology.

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