In this open letter, the signatories state that, “It defies explanation that a party which has taken on itself the mantle of leading the fight against the politics of hate and violence should choose as its candidate a person who, as a member of the BJP in 2018, represented the worst aspects of the politics of hate promoted by the Sangh Parivar. He was one of the most aggressive proponents of majoritarian belligerence that fed its perverse agenda. In one of the most brazen displays of such perversity, Chaudhary Lal Singh, along with some of his colleagues, had, in April 2018, organised and led a public march in support of the perpetrators of what was probably  the most horrifying hate crime in  India’s recent history – the brutal, bestial rape and murder of a minor Muslim girl in Kathua.

“This was a crime which shook the public conscience in ways that few communal hate crimes have ever done. At a time when there was a spontaneous outpouring of public outrage against this crime, Chaudhary Lal Singh thought it fit to come out in public support of the suspects, offering a political justification for their actions. Rarely has civil society in India seen such a blatant display of support not just for a crime against humanity but a pugnacious espousal of the politics of communal hate and bigotry. At that time, it signalled to the world that in the realm of realpolitik, notions of the Rule of Law, of Constitutional morality, of social justice, of basic human rights, of compassion, are subordinate to displays of majoritarian supremacy. It showed that the proponents of muscular Hindutva believe that their ideology can only be sustained by stoking communal fires and creating a climate of fear in and intimidation of the minority community.”

The entire text of the open letter may be read here: 

September 18, 2024

To

Shri Mallikarjun Kharge

President, Indian National Congress

Respected Shri Khargeji,

We, the members of the Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Civil Services committed to promoting, safeguarding and conserving the values enshrined in the Constitution of India, write to you to express our disgust and dismay at your party having given a ticket to Chaudhary Lal Singh to contest the forthcoming Assembly Election in J&K from the Basohli constituency in the Jammu region.

2. It defies explanation that a party which has taken on itself the mantle of leading the fight against the politics of hate and violence should choose as its candidate a person who, as a member of the BJP in 2018, represented the worst aspects of the politics of hate promoted by the Sangh Parivar. He was one of the most aggressive proponents of majoritarian belligerence that fed its perverse agenda. In one of the most brazen displays of such perversity, Chaudhary Lal Singh, along with some of his colleagues, had, in April 2018, organized and led a public march in support of the perpetrators of what was probably the most horrifying hate crime in  India’s recent history – the brutal, bestial rape and murder of a minor Muslim girl in Kathua. This was a crime which shook  public conscience in ways that few communal hate crimes have ever done. At a time when there was a spontaneous outpouring of public outrage against this crime, Chaudhary Lal Singh thought it fit to come out in public support of the suspects, offering a political justification for their actions. Rarely has civil society in India seen such a blatant display of support not just for a crime against humanity but a pugnacious espousal of the politics of communal hate and bigotry. At that time, it signalled to the world that in the realm of realpolitik, notions of the Rule of Law, of Constitutional morality, of social justice, of basic human rights, of compassion, are subordinate to displays of majoritarian supremacy. It showed that the proponents of muscular Hindutva believe that their ideology can only be sustained by stoking communal fires and creating a climate of fear in and intimidation of the minority community.
3. At the time of this revolting public display, Chaudhary Lal Singh was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He probably expected that his conduct would see him being rewarded by his party. Ironically, even the BJP found such toxicity damaging and, whether on his own or at the instance of the higher authorities in the BJP, Lal Singh left the BJP and, after a few years in political wilderness, trying to set up his own outfit, he decided to join the Indian National Congress (INC). For the last few years, it is learnt that he has been trying to bolster the base of the INC in a region dominated by the BJP. The INC saw it fit to nominate him for contesting the Lok Sabha elections from the Udhampur constituency – an election which he lost. Evidently the INC now believes that by fielding him in the Assembly Elections, they will be able to make a dent in BJP’s dominance in the region.
4. In the seven years that we have been in existence, we, as a group, have generally refrained from commenting on the internal affairs of any political party, particularly in matters relating to electoral contests and the choice of candidates. Yet we feel compelled today to protest against this particularly abominable decision of your party. After the success of the Bharat Jodo Yatra two years ago and the modest but significant gains in the Lok Sabha elections, we had come to believe that your party has given up its flirtation with soft Hindutva and that the politics of communal hate and division will be countered by renewing a Gandhian form of resistance of “Nafrat ke bazaar mein Mohabbat ki Dukan’ and of reaffirming the values inherent in the Constitution. We were probably naive, but we believed that this marked a significant change in the party’s political practice to bring ethical concerns to the forefront.
5. The nomination of Chaudhary Lal Singh as a candidate shows that the rhetoric of bringing in a more value based politics is both hollow and hypocritical. The decision sends a signal that, when it comes to the pursuit of political power, your party is no different from those it is fighting against. It also shows that your sensitivity to Muslims, minorities and other oppressed and marginalized sections can be easily sacrificed at the altar of political expediency. This is a shame.
6. We know that the time for nominations as well as withdrawals is over and that our writing to you will not make any difference to the electoral contest. Despite that, we think it important to express our anger and our anguish. We do not owe allegiance to any political party, formal or informal, and our concern is guided entirely by our commitment to the Constitution. We hope that, through this letter, we can make you realise that this kind of cynically expedient political practice will damage your attempts to gain the moral high ground for your party and that your much vaunted appeal to reaffirm the Constitution will ring hollow. We hope that you can and will make genuine efforts to restore our confidence in your commitment to the Constitution.”

SATYAMEVA JAYATE

Yours sincerely,

Constitutional Conduct Group (96 signatories, at pages 3-6 below)

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In Sanji Ram v. State of Jammu and Kashmir and others (CRWP No. 8945 of 2020), the Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the benefit of parole to Sanji Ram, who had previously been convicted in the Kathua rape and murder case. The court was hearing the plea of Sanji Ram, who prayed for parole for a period of 8 weeks in order to attend his son’s marriage.

Mr. Sonpreet Singh Brar, appeared as the Advocate for the petitioner. Senior Advocate R.S. Cheema with Arshdeep Singh Cheema and Mr. H.S. Grewal, Additional Advocate General, Punjab appeared for the respondents.

The Bench of Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice Avneesh Jhingan opined, “Given the genuine apprehension expressed as regards the possible law and order consequences if the petitioner’s prayer for parole is granted, the Court is not inclined to accept such prayer at this stage.”

The Bench took into account the report of the Senior Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Jammu dated October 31, 2020 which stated that the relatives of the victim had returned from the higher reaches to village Rasana, where the said marriage is scheduled to take place.

It was further argued that if the petitioner is granted parole to attend the marriage “there is every apprehension of there being community clashes and protests in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir.”

Taking cognisance of the submissions, the court dismissed his petition.

Sanji Ram was the village head and priest of the temple where the crime allegedly took place. According to the charge sheet, on January 10, 2018 the 8-year-old girl was kidnapped and allegedly raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district after having been kept sedated for four days before she died.

On June 10, 2019, the Pathankot special court, had awarded life sentence to Sanji Ram, Parvesh Kumar and Deepak Khajuria for the offence of murder under the Ranbir Penal Code. They have also been separately sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the offence of gang rape under Section 376D of the Code and fined Rupees 1,00,000/- (rupees one lakh only).

The court noted that the main motive behind this tragic incident was the strained relations between the local Hindu community and nomadic Bakarwal Muslims.

The order may be read here:

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June 10 was a great day for those who have been fighting for justice to an eight-year-old victim of rape and murder.
 
This is especially true for the courageous Human Rights Lawyer, Deepika Singh Rajawat who stepped forward at personal risk to defend the family of Kathua rape victim, a Muslim nomad girl who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and killed by Hindu fundamentalists in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in January 2018.
 
The horrific crime had attracted international attention. 
 
Those involved in the conspiracy wanted to terrorize and humiliate Muslims in the area by using rape as a weapon.
 
On Monday, the special court in India convicted six people involved in the incident. Of them, three have been given life imprisonment, while three police officers have been sentenced for five years each for destroying the evidence.
 
Rajawat faced threats and intimidation in the deeply polarized society of India. After all, the accused enjoyed the patronage of the ruling right-wing Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which holds power. Thanks to her advocacy, the case was transferred outside Jammu and Kashmir to ensure a fair trial.
 
While the verdict has certainly brought some relief, but if one looks at the broader picture the nomad girl has actually been let down by the Indian nation.
 
In the general election that concluded on May 19, the BJP came back to power with a brute majority. This time, the party that openly and shamelessly supported those involved in the gruesome act bagged 300 seats in the house of 543, more than 282 it captured in 2014.
 
If the Indian electorate was honest, the BJP should have been punished in these elections. Rather the party got rewarded by the Hindu majority. Apparently, the voters obsessed with the BJP’s outright sectarian agenda to transform the country into Hindu theocracy completely ignored the cries of the young girl.
 
Not only that, but the majority of voters also overlooked the fact that the girl was confined into a temple that was used for such a sacrilegious act. It seems that they weren’t even outraged over BJP folks coming out in support of the accused with the national flag.
 
The people who raped and murdered her, and those who came out on the streets to support them were merely few, but by re-electing a party that claims to be a custodian of Hindu religion and national interest the entire nation has deceived the soul of the little child.
 
Whatever may be the explanation, the May election results were in sharp contrast to the mandate of 2014 when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi ascended to power against the backdrop of the infamous Nirbhaya case.
 
In December 2012, a woman was gang raped and physically assaulted on a public bus in Delhi – the national capital of India. The victim later succumbed to her injuries. The death of Jyoti Singh Pandey – who came to be known as Nirbhaya was followed by angry protests in the capital.
 
The whole episode became a matter of shame for those in power. People thought that the government lacked will and strength to stop sexual violence on the streets of Delhi.
 
Among the demonstrators were the supporters of Modi and his party. Those opposed to the then-Congress government did not let the issue die until the next election.
 
Modi openly appealed to the voters not to forget what happened to Nirbhaya when they went to vote in the upcoming election. He categorically asked them to keep in mind the victim of Delhi rape before voting for the Lotus – the electoral symbol of BJP. Thus, the Delhi rape and murder became one of the many issues when Modi was elected to power in May 2014 with a hope for a strong government.
 
Come 2019, such drive was missing. Maybe The nomad girl wasn’t even on anyone’s mind.
 
It is pertinent to mention that the conspirators had also incited communal hatred against Muslim nomads accusing them of killing cows. The nomad girl had clearly become another victim of cow politics which has gripped the general mood of the nation ever since Modi first became the Prime Minister. Since Hindus consider a cow as a sacred animal, the self-styled cow vigilantes have intensified their hateful and violent campaign against Muslims and Christians all over the country. They continue to target these communities on suspicion of consuming beef.  
 
Modi, who never missed an opportunity to rake up the issue of Nirbhaya before his 2014 election remained silent on the sexual assault and murder of the nomad girl and did not find it necessary to reprimand his party men for supporting wrong people. 
 
Even otherwise, Modi was complicit in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom of Gujarat during which many young Muslim girls were raped by Hindu fundamentalists. The massacre followed the burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. More than 50 people had died in the incident that was blamed on Islamic extremists by Modi, who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat back then. He wasn’t punished by the electorate that time either as he got a heavy majority in the assembly election that followed the massacre.
 
It’s a shame to see that the entire nation was on its feet when a Hindu woman was raped in Delhi and kept the issue alive until Modi got elected to power in 2014, but the same nation looked the other way when the nomad girl was raped and murdered in 2018 and forgot her completely when they re-elected those who defended her killers.
 
This is despite the fact that many social justice activists continued to remind people of what happened to the nomad girl before the election began.

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Canada: Deepika Singh Rajawat – who is leading the fight for justice For Asifa’s family was honoured at a community event in Surrey, Canada on Sunday.
 
Rajawat is the legal counsel of Asifa Bano’s family. She was an eight-year-old Muslim nomad girl who was abducted by Hindu extremists in January as part of a conspiracy to create fear in the minds of Muslims and force them to flee Kathua region. Her body was later found in a forest. The forensic evidence and police investigation established that she was held captive for several days inside a temple, sedated and raped before being murdered. 
 
The arrests of the suspects, including a Special Police Officer, sparked angry protests from those owing allegiance to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party. They wanted those arrested to be released. So much so, they hoisted the Indian national flag during the march taken out in support of the alleged perpetrators.

 
Rajawat has been facing threats on social media for standing up for Asifa – whose brutal rape and murder had caused worldwide outrage. There have been angry protests in Canada too. She also faced hostility from many male lawyers, including those defending the accused.
 
She was here to attend an annual community fair organized by Tiranjan – a progressive group of women which has been active in the South Asian community for many years. Amy Ghuman Sara who has been instrumental behind Tiranjan is known for raising awareness for gender equality. 
 
Rajawat told this writer that she has been subjected to character assassination and is distraught by an attempt to communalize the issue in the name of Hindu nationalism. She insisted that she is also a proud Hindu, but her brand of Hinduism teaches discipline and compassion, whereas those who are supporting the accused have been using abusive language against her on social media.
 
“All I am fighting against is the crime committed against a poor girl, not against any community.”
 
She asserted that she believes in the Indian constitution that is based on the principles of secularism and therefore cannot hold on to her religion when it comes to her duty. She added that nationalism does not demand that people who indulge in such heinous crimes should be supported. “What happened to a Muslim girl today can happen to a Hindu woman tomorrow.”
 
Rajawat hopes that the justice will prevail even though the prosecution is under a lot of pressure. Thanks to the efforts of the civil society, the trial of this highly sensitive case has been transferred outside Kashmir to ensure neutrality. The trial is in progress in the neighbouring state of Punjab.
 
Rajawat says that the fight is not over yet as the matter has been completely politicized under a highly polarized environment. She demanded that the Indians abroad must break their silence over ongoing atrocities under a right-wing government in India. “When people remain silent bad things grow.” 

Another lawyer, Talib Hussain, from the Gujjar Bakarwal community from which Asifa hailed, has also been battling the issue in the courts. CJP did an exclusive interview with both in April 2018.

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The Supreme Court has also ordered a day-to-day trial and clarified that this means there shall be no adjournments during the trial. The trial will be held in camera and the statements that have been recorded in Urdu will be translated into either Hindi or English for the Pathankot court. The trial will be held as per the provisions of the Ranbir Penal Code that is applicable to the state of J&K. The case will be presided over by the Pathankot District Judge and the SC will monitor the trial.

A bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing a plea to transfer the case out of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The SC refused to examine a separate plea to hand over investigations in the case to the CBI. While the SC allowed the Jammu and Kashmir government to appoint a public prosecutor, it said that the state government should provide security to the victim’s family, their lawyer and witnesses in the case. This is also significant because Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is the victim’s lawyer, had alleged harassment from the Jammu Bar Association.

Supporters of the accused had earlier held a rally claiming they had been framed. The tricolour was also waved at this rally with much gusto as if to suggest the accused were national heroes who were being falsely implicated in the case. Later members of the Kathua Bar Association had tried to prevent the Crime Branch form filing a charge-sheet before the court in a clear case of obstruction of justice. The 15 page charge-sheet showcases the horrifying brutality of the case as well as how the accused had kidnapped, drugged, raped and murdered the little girl to scare and drive away the local nomadic Muslim Bakarwal community.
 

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Meet the ‘Intellectuals’
The GIA comprises Meera Khadakkar (Retired District Judge, Nagpur), Monika Arora (Supreme Court Advocate), Sarjana Sharma (Journalist), Sonali Chitalkar (Professor) and Monica Aggarwal (Social activist). The group that submitted its report to Union Minister Jitendra Singh and demanded that the case be handed over to the CBI. The GIA claims they met more than 25 people including the victim’s family, the accused family members, the influential people from the Bakarwal community and others. 

Argument-1: Presence of Kashmiris in Crime Branch Team  

“Three investigating teams rapidly changed one after another within a span of 10 days from January 12 to January 23. The crime branch team consists of two ethnic Kashmiris apart from the SSP Crime Branch Jammu who is also Kashmiri. In a sensitive case like this one and interstate like Jammu and Kashmir, this matters,” notes the report. This clearly shows their communal bias given how while Jammu is Hindu majority region, Kashmir is predominantly Muslim.

The allusion to the incompetence and/or collusion of Muslim investigators in purposely tanking the case should ring enough alarm bells across civil society groups. This is also disturbing given how the charge-sheet clearly mentions that the little girl was raped and murdered because the accused wanted to scare and drive away the nomadic Muslim Bakarwal tribe from the region. The insidious communal colour becomes deeper when the report alleges that harassment by the Crime Branch is forcing Hindus to leave the Kathua region. With the scars of the Kashmiri Pandit exodus of the 90s still deep, such communally inflammatory allegations can cause further destabilisation in one of the most conflict ridden regions in the world.

Argument-2: Post Mortem does not mention Rape
The brutality of the crime had shaken people across the country forcing many to take to the streets. But the GIA report says that the post-mortem does not categorically state that the child was raped. “The charge sheet mentions gangrape by at least three persons over many days. This is not corroborated by the injuries described in the postmortem report. No such injuries are reported on the victim in the Kathua incident which according to the chargesheet is a gangrape. Postmortem report only mentions abrasions but no injuries,” states the report. This is especially ridiculous given how the J&K Police had issued a press release shooting down fake news and categorically stating that the girl had indeed been raped. 

This reeks of the popular conspiracy theory that involves two post-mortems! The theory claimed that the little girl was never raped as the first post-mortem report does not mention it. The conspiracy theory further alleges that rape was added in the second post mortem report to sensationalise the case.

Argument-3: Rape not possible at the Dev Sthan
Meanwhile, Arora maintains that rape would be impossible in a prayer hall that had multiple doors and windows and the keys of which were in possession of four village elders. “There is neither any basement nor any floor. There is only a 20×35 feet room where there is no furniture except a three feet table. There are three windows and three doors. The windows have only grills and they are not covered. You can see from outside what is going on inside. There are four keys to the Dev Sthan which are with four elders of the village. People come and go there frequently,” she said.

But this has also been debunked by The Quint in a piece that takes down multiple conspiracy theories. It says, “The Quint has visited the temple/prayer hall where the police states the girl was held captive and can certify that it is not a crowded temple. The temple is located in the middle of nowhere, with no houses adjacent to it for kilometres.” The Quint adds, “It is situated on a hilltop and is isolated from the Rasanna village which lies about a kilometre away from the hall. The walk, which leads to the village, is a lonely one. It opens up to a number of houses including the home of Sanji Ram. It is on this same path that the body of the victim was found on 17 January. The chargesheet states that that the Devisthan was exclusively manned by the main accused, Sanji Ram, to exclude any other person in the area.”

Last-ditch effort to derail Justice?
Is this yet another move to derail justice after the spectacularly juvenile attempt by lawyers to prevent the police from filing a chargesheet? Or is this a last ditch attempt by right wing sympathisers to protect the accused whose goose has virtually been cooked? Either way, these repeated endeavours to spread ridiculous and often outright incorrect information, are part of the wider conspiracy to sow the weeds of doubt in a case that has been brilliantly investigated by a team of skilled investigators… and a case that will be fought with equal elan and grace by a dedicated lawyer in the court. 

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We are academics and independent scholars from India and abroad, writing to express solidarity with, and to endorse the sentiments expressed by, forty-nine retired civil servants in their open letter to you of April 16^th 2018 (https://sabrangindia.in/article/honble-pm-modi-we-write-express-our-shame-anguish-and-rage).

Along with these civil servants and countless other citizens of India and the world at large, we wish to express our deep anger and anguish over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events; over the efforts, in both cases, of those administering the relevant States to protect the alleged perpetrators of these monstrous crimes; over the subsequent profoundly distasteful efforts of rationalisation, deflection and diversion that have been so much in evidence in the reactions of your party’s spokespersons in the media; and finally over your own prolonged (and by now familiar) silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and  non-specific assurances of justice for the victims.

Kathua and Unnao are not isolated incidents. They are part of a pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, Dalits, tribals and women, in which rape and lynching have been employed as instruments of violence by gau rakshaks and others, in a sequence of events spread across Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (2015), Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir (2015), Bijapur and Sukma in Chhattisgarh (2015-16), Harda in Madhya Pradesh (2016), Latehar in Jharkand (2016), Una in Gujarat (2016), Rohtak in Haryana (2017), Delhi (2017), Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh (2017), and now Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh (2018).

Many of these events have occurred in States with BJP Governments, and all of them after the BJP assumed power at the Centre. This is not to associate violence exclusively with your party and with State governments presided over by your party. But there is an undeniable association with the ruling dispensation.

There is little evidence, in government action, of an appreciation of the importance of providing assistance to vulnerable sections of the society – whether through promotional measures aimed at enabling tribals and nomads to have access to forest and common property rights, or through preventive measures aimed at discouraging blatant breaches of the rule of law. Even the Allahabad High Court on April 12^th 2018 observed: “If this is the conduct of the police in the state, whom will a victim approach to register a complaint? If this is the stand you are repeatedly taking then we will be forced to observe in our order that law and order has collapsed in the state”.

We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman.
Signed:

List of signatories

1. N Abhilaasha, Centre for Urban Equity, Ahmedabad
2. Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, New York, USA
3. Arnab Acharya, Independent researcher, Washington D.C.
4. Anindita Adhikari , Brown University, USA
5. Tanvir Aeijaz, Ramjas College, Delhi
6. Farzana Afridi, Delhi
7. Aftab Ahmad, Columbia University, New York, USA
8. Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, San Diego State University, CA, USA
9. Aniket Alam, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
10. Seema Alavi, University of Delhi, Delhi
11. Meena Alexander, Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
12. Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster, UK
13. Anandhi, Chennai.
14. Krishna Ananth, SRM University – AP Amaravati
15. Mary Anderson: Harvard University and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA
16. Aneesh, K.A., Jawaharlal Nehru Institute, New Delhi
17. Gil Anidjar, Columbia University, New York, USA
18. Anitha Kumary L, Trivandrum
19. Sundari Anitha, University of Lincoln,  United Kingdom
20. Annamalai, University of Chicago, USA
21. Shaik Dawood Ansari, Open Campus Madang, University of Papua New Guinea
22. Arjun Appadurai, New York University, New York, USA
23. Anjali Arondekar, UCLA, USA
24. Balveer Arora, Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism
25. P K Yasser Arafath, University of Delhi, Delhi
26. Shoba Arun, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
27. Arunima, JNU, New Delhi
28. Nina Asher, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
29. Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
30. Prashanth Asuri, Santa Clara University, USA
31. Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington, USA
32. Venkatesh Athreya, Social Activist and Retired Academic, Chennai
33. Madhav Badami, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
34. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, (Emeritus), Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
35. Barnita Bagchi, Utrecht University, Netherlands
36. Neha Bagle, IIM Ahmedabad
37. Vidura Jang Bahadur, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
38. Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
39. Mira Bakhru, Retd faculty, IIM Bangalore, Bnagalore.
40. Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi, Delhi
41. Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University, U.S.A
42. Sai Balakrishnan, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
43. Sujata Balasubramanian, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
44. Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
45. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Retd Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
46. Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
47. Arindam Banerjee, Ambedkar University, Delhi
48. Chinmoy Banerjee, Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
49. Sukanya Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
50. Sumanta  Banerjee, Independent Researcher, Hyderabad
51. Parama Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
52. Syamal Kumar Basak (Retd), Presidency College/University, Kolkata
53. Rakesh Basant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
54. Alaka Basu, Cornell University, U.S.A
55. Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Mass, USA
56. Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
57. Kunal Basu, University of Oxford, UK
58. Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
59. Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
60. Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
61. Rana P. Behal, University of Delhi, India.
62. Jyothsna Belliappa, Bangalore
63. Yael Berda, Hebrew University and Harvard University, USA
64. Amit Bhaduri, (Emeritus), JNU, New Delhi.
65. Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, University of Mississippi
66. Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY, New York, USA
67. Alok Bhalla, Former Professor of English, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
68. Sheila Bhalla, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Visiting: Institute of Human Development, New Delhi
69. Brenna Bhandar, SOAS, University of London, London UK
70. Gauri Bharat, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
71. Ira Bhaskar, JNU, New Delhi
72. Saurabh Bhattacharjee, The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
73. Baidik Bhattacharya, University of Delhi. Delhi
74. Neeladri Bhattacharya, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
75. Sucheta Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
76. Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
77. Devaki Bhaya, Stanford, CA, USA
78. Bhangya Bhukya, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
79. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, U.S.A.
80. A K Biswas, Former Vice-Chancellor, B R Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
81. Bënil Biswas, Ambedkar University, Delhi
82. Moinak Biswas, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
83. Cavery Bopaiah, Bangalore
84. Mita Bose, retired, Indraprastha College, Delhi University and currently Adjunct faculty at ICFAI Business School, Gurugram, Haryana
85. Tirthankar Bose, Simon Fraser University, Canada
86. Saronik Bosu, New York University, New York, USA
87. Guillaume Boucher, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
88. Milind Brahme, Chennai, India
89. Vacha Brat, IIM, Ahmedabad
90. Carmen Bugan, writer and independent scholar, Long Island, USA
91. Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
92. Maya Chadda, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
93. Kunal Chakrabarti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
94. Achin Chakraborty, Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
95. Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
96. Lekha Chakraborty, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
97. Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia College Chicago
98. Pinaki Chakraborty, New Delhi
99. Rudrashish Chakraborty, Kirori Mal College, Delhi
100. Shouvik Chakraborty, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
101. Ranabir Chakravarti, JNU, New Delhi
102. Paula Chakravartty, New York University, New York, USA
103. Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia, USA
104. Barnali Chanda, Techno India University, Kolkata
105. Sudhir Chandra, Historian
106. Vinita Chandra, Ramjas College, Delhi
107. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
108. Tarun Chandrayadula, IIT Madras, Chennai
109. Charusheela,  University of Washington Bothell, USA
110. Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore, Singapore
111. Amita Chatterjee, Retired Professor of Philosophy, Jadavpur University
112. Ananya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
113. Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas at Austin, USA
114. Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Bangalore
115. Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
116. Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
117. Amit Chaudhuri, Writer, Calcutta
118. Aparna Chaudhuri, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
119. Rosinka Chaudhuri, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
120. Sudip Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
121. Sukanta Chaudhuri, (Emeritus), Jadavpur University, Kolkata
122. Supriya Chaudhuri, (Emeritia). Jadavpur University, Kolkata
123. Wendy Chavkin MD, MPH, Columbia University, New York, USA
124. Ying Chen, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
125. Anuradha Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
126. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
127. Dolores Chew, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
128. Anita Chikkatur, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
129. Camille Cole, Yale University, U.S.A
130. Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
131. Amrita Chhachhi, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
132. Jagdeep Chhokar, Professor (Retired), Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad
133. Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
134. Deborah Choate, MD, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, USA
135. Noam Chomsky, ( Emeritus) Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and University of Arizona, U.S.A
136. Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
137. Elora Halim Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
138. Indira Chowdhury Bengaluru, India
139. Indranil Chowdhury, University of Delhi, Delhi
140. Nusrat S Chowdhury, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
141. Sayandeb Chowdhury, Ambedkar University, Delhi
142. Francis Cody, University of Toronto, Canada
143. Karen Coelho, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
144. Camille Cole, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
145. Jonathan R. Cole, Columbia University, New York, USA
146. Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
147. Romar Correa, (Retd from) University of Mumbai, Mumbai
148. Vedita Cowaloosur, Charles Telfair Institute, Mauritius
149. Vasudha Dalmia, (Emerita), University of California, Berkeley
150. Katyayani Dalmia, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
151. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University, Delhi
152. Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
153. Bijay K Danta, Tezpur, Assam
154. Jane D’Arista, U/Mass, Amherst, USA
155. Debapratim Das, Guwahati
156. Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
157. Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
158. Raju J. Das, York University, Toronto, Canada
159. Samantak Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
160. Shinjini Das, University of Oxford, UK
161. Amlan Dasgupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
162. Anirban Dasgupta, South Asian University, New Delhi
163. Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
164. Sunanda Dasgupta, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
165. Sejuti Das Gupta, Michigan State University, USA
166. Tanya Das Gupta, Toronto, Canada
167. Minati Dash, ICSSR, New Delhi.
168. Manipadma Datta, TERI School of Advanced Studies( Deemed University), New Delhi
169. Ruth Davis, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
170. Subah Dayal, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
171. Rohit De, Yale University, New Haven, USA
172. Ananya Debnath, Jodhpur, Rajastahn
173. Sowmya Dechamma C C, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
174. Narayana Delampady, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
175. Minoo Derayeh, Toronto, Canada
176. Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
177. Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Canada
178. Jigna Desai, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
179. Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
180. Miki and Madhavi Desai, Ahmedabad
181. Renu Desai, Ahmedabad
182. Anirudh Deshpande, Department of History, Delhi University
183. Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
184. Satish Deshpande, Delhi University, Delhi
185. Sudhanva Deshpande, LeftWord Books, New Delhi
186. Peter Ronald deSouza, CSDS, Delhi
187. Sanchia deSouza, University of Toronto, Canada
188. Devika, J. Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
189. Ritu Dewan, Centre for Development Research and Action; Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai
190. Bikramjit Dey, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
191. Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton, U. K
192. Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
193. Anubha Dhasmana, Bangalore
194. Roopa Dhawan, Ramjas​ College, Delhi University
195. Jean Dreze, (Visiting): Ranchi University
196. Rohan D’Souza, Kyoto University, Japan
197. Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, Durham, USA
198. Navroz K. Dubash, New Delhi
199. Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University, Delhi
200. Durga Bhavani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
201. Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
202. Nandini Dutta, Miranda House, Delhi
203. Souraj Dutta, St Andrews University, UK
204. Nata Duvvury, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
205. Carolyn Elliott, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont
206. Meher Engineer, All India Forum on the Right to Education, New Delhi
207. Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
208. Pradeep Esteves, Context India, Bangalore
209. Richard Falk, (Emeritus): Princeton University, U.S.A
210. Alfredo Saad Filho, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London
211. Michelle Fine, CUNY, New York, USA
212. Nancy Folbre, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
213. Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York Oswego, USA
214. Colm Fox, Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences, Singapore
215. Smitha Francis, New Delhi
216. Karen Gabriel, St Stephen’s College, Delhi
217. Rahul K Gairola, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
218. Toral Gajarawala, New York University, New York, USA
219. Rajmohan Gandhi, Gurgaon
220. Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
221. Gangadhar, All India Forum for Right to Education
222. Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
223. Geetanjali Shree, Writer
224. Maitreesh Ghatak, London Shool of Economics, U.K
225. Saran Ghatak, Professor, Keene State College, USA
226. Asher Ghertner, Rutgers University, USA
227. Professor Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, UK.
228. Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow, UK
229. Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University, U.S.A
230. Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
231. Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
232. Partha Ghosh, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
233. Suman Ghosh, Florida Atlantic University , USA
234. Geetha Gokul, St. Thomas’ College, Trichur, Kerala
235. Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, UK
236. Radha Gopalan, Independent Researcher and Educationist, Goa
237. Gayatri Gopinath, New York University, New York, USA
238. Manu Goswami, New York University, New York, USA
239. Gregory Goulding, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
240. Paul Greenough, University of Iowa, USA
241. Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin, USA
242. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta, Kolkata
243. Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles
244. Bishnupriya Gupta, Warwick University, UK
245. Ruchira Gupta, New York University and University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A
246. Sayan Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.
247. Smita Gupta, independent economist, New Delhi
248. Vikas Gupta, Department of History, Delhi University, Delhi
249. Vishal Gupta, Ahmedabad
250. Dean Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
251. Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
252. Jaideep Gupte, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
253. Shubhra Gururani, York University, Toronto, Canada
254. Abha Dev Habib, Miranda House, Delhi
255. John Harriss, Simon Fraser University and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen, Germany
256. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi, Delhi.
257. Zoya Hasan, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
258. Rim Hassen, Warwick University, UK
259. Neeraj Hatekar, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
260. John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
261. Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
262. Indira Hirway, Center For Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad
263. Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, USA
264. Priyadarshini Iyer, IIM – Ahmedabad
265. Srikanth Krishnan Iyer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
266. Vijay Iyer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
267. Krati Jain, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
268. Sanjay Jain, University of Oxford, UK
269. Sarandha Jain, Columbia University, New York, USA
270. Sheena Jain, formerly Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
271. Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College, Deublin, Ireland
272. Sadia Jamil, Islamabad, Pakistan
273. Russell Janis, J.D., University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
274. Niraja Gopal Jayal, JNU, New Delhi
275. Jayaraj, retired economist, Chennai
276. Rajshri Jayaraman, ESMT Berlin, Germany
277. Katherine Jellison, Ohio University, USA
278. Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
279. Gita Johar, Columbia University, New York, USA
280. May Joseph, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
281. Yogi Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
282. Chitra Joshi, Delhi University, New Delhi
283. Rutul Joshi, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
284. Amalendu Jyotishi, Amrita School of Business, Bangalore
285. Tanishka Kachru, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
286. K K Kailash, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
287. A. Kalam, C. K. Prahalad Centre for Emerging India, Loyola campus, Chennai
288. Vidya Kalaramadam, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
289. Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
290. Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading, Reading, UK
291. Milind Kandlikar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,
292. Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.
293. Ankur Kapoor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
294. Geeta Kapur, independent art critic, New Delhi
295. Manju Kapur, writer and ex faculty Miranda House College, Delhi University, Delhi
296. Ajit Karnik, Mumbai/Dubai
297. Massoud Karshanas, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K
298. Malavika Kasturi, University of Toronto, Canada
299. Nilofer Kaul, Delhi
300. Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster, UK
301. Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
302. Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
303. Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
304. Rana Khan, Toronto, Canada
305. Stuti Khanna, IIT Delhi, Delhi
306. Sushil Khanna, (Retd.), Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
307. Reetika Khera, IIT, Delhi
308. Ateya Khorakiwala, Princeton University, NJ, USA
309. Ayesha Kidwai, , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
310. Viktoriya Kim, Osaka University, Japan
311. Praveena Kodoth, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
312. Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University, MD, USA
313. Ashok, Kotwal, (Emeritus): The University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C, Canada
314. Ashutosh V. Kotwal, Duke University, Durham, USA
315. Astrid von Kotze, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
316. Jane Krishnadas, School of Law, Keele., UK
317. Preeti Krishnan, Bengaluru
318. Radhika Krishnan, IIT Hyderabad
319. Aishwary Kumar, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, USA
320. Arun Kumar, Institute of Social Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
321. Avinash Kumar, Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi.
322. Deepak Kumar, JNU, New Delhi
323. Nita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA
324. Udaya Kumar, Centre for English Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
325. Rachel Kurien, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
326. Somjita Laha, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
327. Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University, Delhi
328. Vinay Lal, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
329. Rachel Lee, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
330. Roselyn Lemus, Mexico City, USA
331. Mark Liechty, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
332. Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University, PA, USA
333. David Lelyveld, New York, USA
334. Karen Leonard, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
335. Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA
336. Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, USA
337. David Ludden, New York University, New York, USA
338. Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, New York University, USA.
339. Anuja Madan, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA.
340. Punnappurath Madhavan, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
341. Aruna Magier, New York University, New York, USA
342. Darshini Mahadevia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
343. Swadesh M Mahajan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
344. Ram Mahalingam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
345. Durairaj Maheswaran, NYU, New York, USA
346. Pushkar Maitra, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
347. Bipasha Maity, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana
348. Rochona Majumdar, The University of Chicago, USA
349. Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi, Delhi
350. Meenakshi Malhotra, Hansraj college, Delhi
351. Ashok Malla, McGill University, Canada
352. Mukul Mangalik, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
353. Anandi Mani, University of Oxford, UK
354. Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, USA
355. Nissim Mannathukkaren, Dalhousie University Canada.
356. Anuradha Marwah, Zakir Hussain College, New Delhi
357. Raveena Mascarenhas, Mangaluru
358. Manu V. Mathai, Bengaluru
359. John Mathew, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
360. Shency Mathew, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
361. Navdeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
362. Deepak Maun, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
363. Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
364. Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
365. Rushi Mehta, Utrecht, Netherlands
366. Uday S. Mehta, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
367. Gayatri Menon, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
368. Kalyani Devaki Menon, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
369. Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, New Delhi
370. Kalyani Menon-Sen, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
371. Tushar Meshram, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
372. Zain R. Mian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
373. John Miller, Wheaton College, Massachussetts, U.S.A
374. Raza Mir, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
375. Payoshni Mitra, Independent researcher and activist, London, UK
376. Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
377. Sona Mitra, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi
378. Gautam Mody, New Trade Union Initiative
379. Nasreen A. Mohamed, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
380. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University, NY, USA
381. Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
382. Himansu S. Mohapatra, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
383. Bidisha Mondal, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
384. Radhika Mongia, York University, Canada
385. Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Boston MA, USA
386. Sripad Motiram, University of Massachussetts, Boston, U.S.A
387. Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick, UK
388. Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania, USA
389. Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford, UK
390. Arun P. Mukherjee, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada.
391. Ashesh Mukherjee, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
392. Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University, New York, USA
393. Debraj Mukherjee, Ramjas College, Delhi
394. Sajni Mukherji, Retd. Professor, English dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
395. Sanjukta Mukherjee, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
396. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University, UK
397. Harbans Mukhia, Former Professor of History and Rector, JNU, New Delhi
398. Akshaya Mukul, Delhi
399. Angelie Multani, Academic, New Delhi.
400. Kanta Murali, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
401. Maroona Murmu, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
402. Hema A Murthy, Dept. of CS&E IIT Madras
403. Ishwar Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
404. M V N Murthy, Professor Emeritus, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
405. Rajluxmi Vaish Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
406. Milind Murugkar , researcher, Nashik , India
407. Barnali Nag, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
408. Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
409. Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
410. Harini Nagendra , Bangalore
411. Ratna Naidu, Professor (retd.) University of Hyderabad and former Vice Chancellor,

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1. Sirisha Naidu, Wright State University, Ohio
2. Janaki Nair, JNU, New Delhi
3. Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
4. Ashis Nandy, CSDS, Delhi
5. Gaura Narayan, Purchase College State University of New York, USA
6. Sudha Narayanan, Economist, Mumbai
7. Balmurli Natrajan, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
8. Nandan Nawn, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi
9. Nalini Nayak, Associate Professor (Retired), PGDAV (M) College, Delhi University
10. Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
11. Anuradha Dingwaney Needha, Oberlin College, OH, USA
12. Neeraja D, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
13. Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University (New Jersey), USA
14. Madhurima Nundy, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
15. Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania
16. Rupal Oza, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
17. Shivarama Padikkal, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
18. Debabrata Pal, New Delhi
19. Parthapratim Pal, IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
20. Amrita Pande,  University of Cape Town, South Africa
21. Bratati Pande, Retired, Delhi University, Delhi
22. Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
23. Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
24. Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
25. Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
26. Rajendra Parihar Ramjas College, Delhi
27. Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
28. Sujata Patel, National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
29. Krishna Patel, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
30. Shekhar Pathak, Historian and Editor, Pithorgarh, Uttarakhand
31. Vikram Pathania, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
32. Prabhat Patnaik, (Emeritus): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
33. Ramesh Patnaik, Andhra Pradesh Save Education Committee,
34. Utsa Patnaik  (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
35. ​Sonali Perera, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
36. Rosalind Petchesky, (Emerita):, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
37. Geralyn Pinto, Mangalore
38. Justin Podur, York University, Toronto, Canada
39. Robert Pollin, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A.
40. Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, New York, USA
41. Anupama Potluri, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
42. Gopalji Pradhan, School of Letters, Ambedkar, University Delhi
43. R.Prakash. ARTIC, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.
44. Lokesh Malti Prakash, Activist & Writer, Office Secretary, All India Forum for Right to Education
45. Anup Pramanik, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
46. Madhu Prasad. New Delhi
47. Vijay Prashad, LeftWord Books.
48. Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London
49. Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston, USA
50. Bandana Purkayastha, Grafton, MA, USA
51. Meena Radhakrishna, former faculty, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
52. Raghavendra, N. Faculty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
53. Harriet Raghunathan, Jesus and Mary College (retired), New Delhi
54. Rohit Rahi, London School of Economics, UK
55. Shirin M. Rai, Warwick University, UK
56. Rajeswari Sarla Raina, Scientist, New Delhi
57. Anisa Rahim, Jersey City, NJ
58. Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, New York, USA
59. Mrinalini Rajagopalan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
60. Advaita Rajendra, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
61. Prabina Rajib, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
62. Surampudi Bapi Raju, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
63. Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington, Seattle
64. Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto, Canada
65. Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
66. Vasanthi Raman, Independent social scientist, New Delhi
67. Bharat Ramaswami, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
68. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, Durham USA
69. Kavitha Ranganathan, IIM-Ahmedabad
70. Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC
71. Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge, UK
72. Ajay Rao, University of Toronto, Canada
73. Anupama Rao, Barnard College, New York, USA
74. Govinda Rao, (Emeritus): National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Bangalore
75. Mohan Rao, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
76. Mohan Rao, JNU, New Delhi
77. Nitya Rao, University of east Anglia, Norwich, UK
78. Sumathi Rao, Harish-chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
79. Rashmi Kumari, IIM Ahmedabad
80. Manav Ratti, Salisbury University, MD, USA
81. Chitra Ravi, visiting faculty at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.
82. Anushnath Ravichandran, Coimbatore
83. Vikas Rawal, Jawaharlal Nehru Uiversity, New Delhi
84. Debraj Ray, New York University, New York, USA
85. Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
86. Ranjan Ray, Economist, Melbourne, Australia
87. Aparna Rayaprol, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
88. Chandan Reddy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
89. Gayatri Reddy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
90. Rammanohar Reddy, (Visiting): Goa University, Hyderabad
91. Rohit Revi, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
92. Shaunna Rodrigues, Columbia University, New York, USA
93. Dunu Roy, Director, Hazards Centre, New Delhi
94. Mallarika Sinha Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
95. Modhumita Roy, Tufts University, USA
96. Parama Roy, University of California, Davis
97. Satyaki Roy, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi
98. Srila Roy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
99. Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen, Germany
100. Anamitra Roychowdhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
101. Marlene Rutzendorfer, Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Cambridge, MA, USA
102. Sachin N, Dyal Singh college, New Delhi
103. Niladri Saha, Basirhat College, West Bengal
104. Poulomi Saha, University of California, Berkeley, USA
105. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, University of Delhi., Delhi
106. Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
107. Rajgopal Saikumar, New York University, New York, USA
108. Kalyani Samantray, Visiting Professor, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
109. Padmanabh Samarendra, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
110. Preeti Sampat, Ambedkar University Delhi.
111. Samson, Nizamabad district, Telengana
112. Sudipto Sanyal, Techno India University, Kolkata
113. Aditya Sarkar, University of Warwick, UK
114. Sumit Sarkar, (Retired): Delhi University, New Delhi
115. Tanika Sarkar, (Retired): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
116. Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
117. Susan Seizer, Indiana University,  Bloomington IN, USA
118. Abhijit Sen, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
119. Hari Sen, Ramjas College, Delhi
120. Nivedita Sen, Hansraj College, Delhi
121. Rukmini Sen, Ambedkar University, New Delhi
122. Sambuddha Sen, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi
123. Sanghita Sen, St Andrews University, UK
124. Abhijit Sengupta, University of Essex, UK
125. Debjani Sengupta, IP College, Delhi University, Delhi
126. Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, Delhi
127. Puneet Seth, Beachwood, Ohio
128. Sanjay Seth, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
129. Svati P. Shah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
130. Rachna Shanbog, Dublin, UK
131. Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College, USA
132. Arul Shankar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
133. Shiva Shankar, Scientist, Chennai.
134. Alpana Sharma, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
135. Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada
136. Shailja Sharma, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
137. Shilpa Sharma, University of Delhi, Delhi
138. Abhishek Shaw, Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai
139. Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, USA
140. Sherin B.S, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
141. Parinitha Shetty, Mangaluru, Karnataka
142. Tim Shiell, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
143. Snehal Shingavi, Associate Professor, English, University of Texas, Austin
144. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqui, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
145. Amritjit Singh, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
146. Harjinder Singh, IIIT- Hyderabad.
147. Natasha Singh, Oakland, CA
148. Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford
149. Radhika Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
150. Supriya Singh, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
151. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi, New Delhi
152. Vidhu Singh, San Francisco, CA, USA
153. Dipa Sinha, Ambedkar University Delhi
154. Rita Sinha, Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi
155. Shana Sippy, Centre College, KY, and Carleton College, MN, USA
156. Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
157. Sobha Rani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
158. Srilata, K., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
159. Jeena T Srinivasan, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
160. Krithika Srinivasan, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
161. Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
162. Ravindran Sriramachandran, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana
163. Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
164. Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
165. Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
166. Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
167. Abigail J. Stewart, University of Michigan
168. Catherine Stimpson, New York University, New York, USA
169. Sivagami Subbaraman, Washington D.C., USA
170. Binaya Subedi, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
171. K Venkata Subrahmanyam, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai.
172. Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
173. Lakshmi Subramanian, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France
174. Narendra Subramanian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
175. Subramanian, Independent Scholar and former ICSSR National Fellow, Chennai.
176. Mita Sujan, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
177. Nandini Sundar, Delhi University, New Delhi
178. Vivan Sundaram, artist, New Delhi
179. S. Sunder, retired professor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
180. Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
181. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York University, U.S.A.
182. Shamina Talyarkhan, New York, USA
183. Ashwini Tambe, University of Maryland, MD, USA
184. Tanima, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
185. Akshaya Tankha, University of Toronto, Canada
186. Anand Teltumbde, GIM, Goa
187. Tariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University, USA
188. Manish Thakur , IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
189. Binitha Thampi.. IIT Madras, Chennai
190. Susie Tharu, Hyderabad
191. Dania Thomas – University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
192. Thomas Joseph Thoomkuzhy, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
193. Miriam Ticktin, The New School for Social Research, NYC, USA
194. Ahmet Tonak, (Visiting): University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.
195. Nasir Tyabji, formerly with Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
196. Sahana Udupa, Professor of Media Anthropology, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
197. Lalit Vachani, CeMIS, University of Göttingen
198. Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
199. Vamsi Vakulabharanam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
200. Achin Vanaik, Retd from Delhi University, New Delhi
201. Sarah Van Arsdale, NYU and Antioch University/LA
202. Hendrik Van Den Berg, (Emeritus): University of Nebraska, U.S.A
203. Poornima Varma, IIM, Ahmedabad.
204. Rahul Varma, playwright and artistic director of Teesri Duniya Theatre
205. Rashmi Varma, Warwick University, UK
206. Rohit Varman, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
207. Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
208. Sylvia Jane Vatuk, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
209. Malathi Velamuri, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
210. Shikha Verma, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
211. K. Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi
212. Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge, UK
213. Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
214. Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, New York, USA
215. Kamala Visweswaran, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
216. Shweta Wagh, KRVIA Mumbai
217. Gareth Wall , University of Birmingham, UK
218. Jini Watson, New York University, New York, USA
219. Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College, USA
220. Thomas Weisskopf, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, U.S.A
221. Jeannette Wicks-Lim, PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , USA
222. David Winter, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, USA
223. Pramod Yadava, Retd Professor, JNU, New Delhi
224. Louise Yelin, Professor Emerita, Purchase College, Purchase NY, USA
225. Nobuharu Yokokawa, Musashi University, Japan
226. Shundana Yusaf, University of Utah, USA

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