Toshio Akai Editor

Soumen Mukherjee (Dr. phil. 2010, University of Heidelberg) teaches History at Presidency University, Kolkata. His publications are in the fields of religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia, and include the Karim and Rosemin Karim prize-winning book two monographs: Religion, Mysticism, and Transcultural Entanglements in Modern South Asia: Towards a Global Religious History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), and Ismailism and Islam in
Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals (Cambridge University Press, 2017), two edited collections, and several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. 

Toshio Akai is Professor of Humanities at Kobe Gakuin University with expertise in and publications on Theosophist activities in Ireland and India, and Irish impact on the interwar years Japanese culture. He is the co-author of The Cosmic Movement:Sources, Contexts, Impact (Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2020) and other books.