Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar,literary theorist,and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Homi Kharshedji Bhabha is an Indian scholar and critical theorist. He is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies,and has developed a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts,such as hybridity,mimicry,difference,and ambivalence. Such terms describe ways in which colonised people have resisted the power of the coloniser,according to Bhabha's theory. In 2012,he received the Padma Bhushan award in the field of literature and education from the Indian government. He is married to attorney and Harvard lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha,and they have three children.
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS),Bangalore. A former distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute,Allahabad,He is also an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER),Bhubaneswar,India he is also a Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His main area of work is string theory. He was among the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".
The Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) or Subaltern Studies Collective is a group of South Asian scholars interested in postcolonial and post-imperial societies. The term Subaltern Studies is sometimes also applied more broadly to others who share many of their views and they are often considered to be "exemplary of postcolonial studies" and as one of the most influential movements in the field. Their anti-essentialist approach is one of history from below,focused more on what happens among the masses at the base levels of society than among the elite.
Ranajit Guha emerged as a prominent Indian historian and a seminal figure among the early architects of the Subaltern Studies collective. This methodological approach within South Asian Studies is dedicated to the examination of post-colonial and post-imperial societies,emphasizing an analysis from the vantage point of marginalized social strata. Guha assumed the editorial mantle for numerous foundational anthologies of the group,contributing as an editor prolifically in both English and Bengali.
In postcolonial studies and in critical theory,the term subaltern designates and identifies the colonial populations who are socially,politically,and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power of an imperial colony and from the metropolitan homeland of an empire. Antonio Gramsci coined the term subaltern to identify the cultural hegemony that excludes and displaces specific people and social groups from the socio-economic institutions of society,in order to deny their agency and voices in colonial politics. The terms subaltern and subaltern studies entered the vocabulary of post-colonial studies through the works of the Subaltern Studies Group of historians who explored the political-actor role of the common people who constitute the mass population,rather than re-explore the political-actor roles of the social and economic elites in the history of India.
Philip S. Khoury is Ford International Professor of History and Vice Provost at MIT. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut.
Swapan Kumar Chakravorty was an Indian academic who was a distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Presidency University,Kolkata.
Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose work combines history and anthropology,archival and field research,subaltern studies and postcolonial-decolonial perspectives,and social theory and critical thought. After teaching at the University of Delhi,since 1995 he is Professor of History –elected to the Distinguished Category of Professor-Researcher in 2009 –at the Centre of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. Dube is a member also of the National System of Researchers (SNI),Mexico,in which since 2005 he holds the highest rank.
Sunil Khilnani is a professor of politics and history at Ashoka University,India. Previously,he was a professor of politics and the Director of the King's College London India Institute. He is a scholar of Indian history and politics best known as the author of The Idea of India (1997). He was the presenter of a BBC Radio 4 series entitled Incarnations:India in 50 Lives,which was later published as a book in 2016. He was a 2010 Berlin Prize Fellow,and he was also a recipient of the Indian government's 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award.
Raghab Bandyopadhyay was an Indian Bengali prose writer and columnist.
Arindam Ghosh is an Indian experimental condensed matter physicist and a Professor in the Department of Physics,Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore,India. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology,the highest science award in India,for the year 2012 in physical sciences category. In 2020,he was awarded the Infosys Prize for Physical Science,the most prestigious award that recognizes achievements in science and research,in India.
The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society is a collaborative research center located on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago,Illinois.
Gautam Bhadra is a historian of South Asia and was a member of the erstwhile Subaltern Studies collective.
Vivek Aslam Chibber is an American academic,social theorist,editor,and professor of sociology at New York University,who has published widely on development,social theory,and politics. Chibber is the author of three books,The Class Matrix:Social Theory after the Cultural Turn,Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital and Locked in Place:State-Building and Late Industrialization in India.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is an Indian feminist scholar,a professor in English,and author of several books on issues related to feminism and gender. Her research interest has covered many subjects such as of the pre and post colonial period,Indian English writing,gender and cultural issues related to South Asia,and the English literature of the Victorian era. She has also edited a series called the "Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism",and "Signposts:Gender Issues in Post-Independence India". She has authored many books of which the notable ones are the Scandal of the State:Women,Law and Citizenship in Postcolonial India and Real and Imagined Women:Gender,Culture and Postcolonialism.
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,Calcutta (CSSSC) is a social science and humanities research and teaching institute in Kolkata,West Bengal,India.
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is an Indian literary scholar. She studied literature at the University of Calcutta,University of Oxford,and Cambridge University,and has taught at the University of Leeds and King's College London. She is the author of numerous research papers and she has published several books. Her prizes include the Infosys Prize for humanities in 2017,and the Humboldt Prize in 2018. Kabir was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is an Indian historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Bandyopadhyay is known for his research on the Dalit caste of Bengal.
