Exploring Indian Society: Essays in Honour of Professor Yogesh Atal

Surendra K. Gupta is Senior ICSSR Fellow working on a comparative study of Indian Diaspora, Earlier, he taught at the University of Sagar, Miles College, Birmingham (USA), and Punjabi University, Patiala. For a brief period, he was UNESCO Consultant at Bangkok. He is author of Citizen in the Making, India in the Year AD 2000 (with Iqbal Narain), Conflict and Communication: Mass Upsurge in Assam (with Indira B. Gupta), and Indians in Thailand.

Vinay Kumar Srivastava teaches social anthropology at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Religious Renunciation of a Pastoral People and has edited Methodology and Fieldwork. He has carried out intensive fieldwork in western Rajasthan, and is presently working on a book on the economy of a seminomadic, pastora community.