Abhijit Gupta is a Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He co-edited the following four volumes that helped define book history as a field in India: Print Areas (2004), Moveable Types (2008), New Word Order (2011), and Founts of Knowledge (2015). He was an associate editor for South Asia for the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010). This is the se...

Senthil Babu is a historian of mathematics in the Department of Social Sciences, French Institute of Pondicherry. He completed his doctoral research at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and his book, Mathematics, and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India will be published by the Oxford University Press this year. He...

C N Subramaniam studied history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, obtaining his M Phil degree with a dissertation on the history of agriculture in medieval South India. He taught history at Delhi University for a short while, before joining Eklavya, Bhopal, in 1984, where he was also the Director. He has written widely on several aspects of school educatio...