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Prof. Ratan Parimoo is a noted art historian and critic and art teacher who has specialized in traditional and contemporary arts of India.  He was Head of the Department of Art History & Aesthetics from 1966 to 1991 at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.  As a Commonwealth scholar, Prof. Parimoo studied History of European Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1960-63).  He received the Rockfeller Grant to study in the USA in 1974.  He was invited to participate in the twenty third World congress of the International Society of Education through Art, held in Autralia in 1968.

He is the editor of the encyclopaedic critical anthology Creative Arts in Modern India.  In 2010 he edited “Historical Development of Contemporary Indian Art 1880-1947.”  His publications include Paintings of the three Tagores: Abanindranath, Gaganendranath and Rabindranath; Studies in Modern Indian Art; Sculptures of Sheshasayi Vishnu; and Essays on New Art History: Studies in Indian Sculpture.  He is also an eminent painter.

Sandip Sarkar, a Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, has been engaged in research on diverse topics such as agro-industry and its linkages with agriculture, poverty, employment conditions in manufacturing, globalisation and the labour market.