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Ms. Sutapa Sinha obtained her M.Sc. degree in Archaeology from the University of Calcutta in 1990 securing first position in First Class. She has subsequently worked in a research project on the Urban Archaeology of Mediaeval Bengal with special reference to the cities of Gaur and Pandua. She is presently working on the Numismatics of Mediaeval Bengal in her capacity as Fellow, Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training, Eastern India. She has contributed research papers on Urban Archaeology of Mediaeval Bengal and Bengal Sultanate coins.

Mallar Mitra, born 1949; obtained her MA degree in 1969 from Calcutta University; got her PhD degree from Delhi Univeristy in 1973; worked as a Research Officer at Jawaharlal Nehru University (1973-1983); joined the Univeristy of Calcutta as a Lecturer in 1984.  author of several studies on Buddhist Iconography.

Gerd J.R. Mevissen, born 1953, studied Modern Architecture and Ancient Indian Art History at Berlin Universities.He worked from 1990 to 1995 as Lecturer of Indian Art History in the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University Berlin, and from 2000 to 2002 as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Indian Art, Belin. He is editor of the journals Berliner Indologische Studien and Indo-Asiatische Zeitschrift, both published annually from Berlin, and has edited also a number of books and felicition volumes dealing with Indological subjects. He has published more than forty research papers on different aspects of Indian Art, Architecture and Iconography (Hindu, Buddhist, Jain).