Contributors

Marina Carter, D.Phil. (OXON), is Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Chan Choenni is senior advisor in the Ministry of Justice, Department of Integration Policy in the Netherlands.

Theresa W. Devasahayam has held research positions in the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia and the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore, Singapore. Murari Kumar Jha is currently an M.Phil. student under the ENCOMPASS programme run by the Department of History, Leiden University.

Tan Li Jen did her M.A. in History at the National University of Singapore. Following the completion of her Master’s degree, Li Jen worked as a broadcast journalist with a news radio station before joining a publishing firm.

Amarjit Kaur is currently Professor of Economic History at the School of Economics, University of New England, Australia.

Brij V. Lal, is Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. Habibul Haque Khondker is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Claude Markovits is a Directeur de Recherche (Senior Research Fellow) at the CNRS, Paris. He has authored numerous works on the history of colonial India, with particular emphasis on merchants and businessmen, as well as on the politics of Indian nationalism. His publications include Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985); The Global World of Indian Merchants 1750-1947 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); A History of Modern India 1480-1950 (London: Anthem Press, 2002); and The Un-Gandhian Gandhi: the life and afterlife of the Mahatma (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003).

Vijay Mishra is Professor of English Literature at Murdoch University, Australia.