The Past of the Outcaste: Readings in Dalit History

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya has been Professor of Indian Economic History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, from 1975 to 2004, the Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan 1991-95, and earlier held teaching and research appointments in the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; University of Chicago; St Antony’s College, Oxford; and El Colegio de Mexico.

Yagati Chinna Rao currently teaching at the Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His other works including Dalits' Struggle for Identity (2003); Dalit Studies: A Bibliographical Handbook (2003); also been Co-editor, Development of Women's Education in India (2001); and Educating the Nation: Documents on the Discourse of National Education in India (2003). He has also been Visiting Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.