Surviving in My World: Growing Up Dalit in Bengal

Jaydeep Sarangi teaches English at Seva-Bharti Mahavidyalaya (Vidyasagar University), Midnapur (W.B.). He has been working for the UGC Research Project on Contemporaray Indian Englishg Poets. His publications include three full-length books: An Introduction to Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (second edd. 2004), Indian Novels in English: A Sociolinuistic Study (2005), An Introduction to English Language Teaching (2005). His areas of interest are: Indian Writing in English, Sociolinguistics, ELT and Australian poetry. He edits three research journals in English. He is one of the executive members of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS).

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay teaches modern Indian history at Victoria University of Welington in New Zealand. He has also taught at Calcutta University and Kalyani University in India. He is the author of Caste, Politics and the Raj: Bengal, 1872-1937 (1990). He is the editor of Bengal: Rethinking History. Essays in Historiography (2001) and a co-editor of Caste and Communal Politics in South Asia (1993) and Bengal Communities, Development and States (1994).