Gilles Tarabout Editor

Gilles Tarabout is a social anthropologist. He is Senior Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Director of the South Asia programme of collaboration in the social sciences and the humanities, Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, and Visiting Professor at the University Paris X - Nanterre.

Ranabir Samaddar is Director, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, and has been vitally involved in initiating peace studies programmes in South Asia. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia. The Politics of Dialogue is the culmination of his work on justice, rights, and peace.