Stuart Corbridge is Professor of International Development at LSE, where he is also Deputy Director and Provost. He is the author, with John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey, of India Today: Economy, Politics and Society (2013).

Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE where she leads a research programme on Inequality and Poverty in India. She is the author of In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (2010) and is writing a book on the Maoist-inspired Naxalite movement.