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David Arnold is professor of South Asian history, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His published work includes studies of the police in colonial South India and colonial medicine (Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India, 1993). Professor Arnold is currently working on environmental history and has recently published The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture, and the Expansion of Europe (1996).

Gautam Bhadra has taught history at the University of Calcutta and is now professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is the author of two books in Bengali on peasants in Mughal India and on religiosity in peasant consciousness in Bengal.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989) and is coeditor (with Shahid Amin) of Subaltern Studies IX (1996).

Partha Chatterjee is professor of political science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and the author of Bengal, 1920-1947: The Land Question (1985), Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986), and The Nation and Its Fragments (1993).

Ranajit Guha has edited Subaltern Studies I-VI (1982-89). His publications include A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement (1963, 1982, 1996), Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983), and Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (forthcoming). He has served in teaching and research positions at a number of universities in India, England, the United States, and Australia. Now retired, he lives in Canberra, Australia.

David Hardiman was based during the ig8os at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, where he carried out the research and writing for The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India (1987). Now based at the University of Warwick, his most recent book is Feeding the Baniya: Usurers and Peasants in Western India (1996).

Gyanendra Pandey is professor of history at the University of Delhi. He has taught at universities in India, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States. He is the author of The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh (1978) and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990), and editor of Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today (1993), among other publications.

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