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Kamala Ganesh is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai. Her areas of interest include gender studies, caste and kinship, and cultural studies. Professor Ganesh has earlier taught Sociology at St Xavier’s College and SNDT Women’s University, both in Mumbai. She was also Senior Fellow of the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), 1992-94, and Secretary of the Commission on Women, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1988-93). She has been involved in research work for the ICSSR and for UNESCO’s Population and Human Settlements Division. A member of the managing committee of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Kamala Ganesh has contributed numerous papers to journals and edited volumes, besides being the author of Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in a Tamil Community (1993) and the co-editor of Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Marriage and Kinship Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (Sage, 1998).

Usha Thakkar is Honorary Director, Institute of Research on Gandhian Thought and Rural Development, Mumbai. She retired as Professor and Head of Department, Political Science, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai. Her research work has focused mainly on Indian politics, women’s studies and Gandhian studies. Widely published, Usha Thakkar is the co-author of Kautilya’s Arthashastra (1980), Women and Men Voters (1981) and Women in India (2001); co-editor of Politics in Maharashtra (1995) and India in World Affairs (1999); and the author of various books in Gujarati, including Bharatini Videsh Niti (India’s Foreign Policy) and Strio ane Rajkaran (Women and Politics in India), both published in 2000.