Partha Nath Mukherji was Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; a Senior Fellow of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; and S.K. Dey Chair Professor at Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. He was the President of the Indian Sociological Society. His areas of research interest include social movements; democratic decentralisation; social change, development and mobility; and research methodology. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Sociological Society.

N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He has taught at Bangalore University, Goa University, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He was Visiting Professor at The University of the West Indies (St Augustine), Trinidad and Tobago; and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. His research areas include sociology of education, political sociology, sociology of diaspora, and theory and method. He is a recipient of the Dr Paduru Gururaja Bhat Annual Award and ET Now Education Leadership Award.

Bhola Nath Ghosh  is Professor and Head of the Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He has earlier taught sociology at the West Bengal State University, Rabindra Bharati University, Jadavpur University, University of Kalyani and Indira Gandhi National Open University.  His research areas include gender studies, decentralisation, rural development, and social problems.