Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and member, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He is known for his work on international political theory, politics of globalisation, democracy, rights and justice in South Asia. His recent publications include "Indian Autonomies: Keywords and Key Texts "(co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar and Samir Kumar Das, 2005) and "Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of UN s Guiding Principles "(co-edited with Paula Banerjee and Samir Kumar Das, 2005).

Ranabir Samaddar is the Director of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia.Samaddar s particular researches have spread over a wide area comprising migration and refugee studies, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control.His recent political writings "The Emergence of the Political Subject "(2009) and "The Nation Form "(2012) have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking and have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation state.