Sarvani Gooptu Author & Editor

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Research-Professor at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, México City, and a member of the National Scheme of Researchers, CONACyT, Mexico where she holds the highest rank. Her research interests include religion, law and power; language and identity; caste and politics; food, gender and nation, and postcolonial studies, with special focus on Odisha (and Bengal and Mexico) over the 19th and 20th centuries. She has authored four books, including the most recent A History ofModern India (2015). Among her twelve edited volumes are Cooking Cultures (2016) and Caste in History (2008).

Sarvani Gooptu is Professor of Asian Literary and Cultural Studies at the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata, India, and was Associate Professor of History at Calcutta Girls’ College from 1997 to 2016. Her research interests are culture, nationalism, and gender studies in Asia. Her book The Actress inthe Public Theatres of Calcutta came out in 2015 and Dwijendralal Roy andthe Rise of Nationalism is forthcoming.