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Sujata Patel is Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Umea University, Sweden (2021-2022). She has been Distinguished Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University; National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and a teacher of sociology at the Universities of Hyderabad, Pune, and SNDT Women's University. Her interests include modernity and social theory, history of sociology/social sciences, urbanisation and city-formation, social movements, gender construction, and caste and class formation in India with a historical sensibility based on perspectives from Marxism, feminism, spatial studies, and post-structuralism. She has authored, edited, and co-edited 14 books and 70 papers/ book chapters, and has served as editor of several series. She has been associated in various capacities with the International Sociological Association and has been its first Vice President for National Associations. She was also the President of Indian Sociological Society.

D. Parthasarathy is Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. He is also Associate Faculty at IIT Bombay's Centre for Urban Science and Engineering, the Centre for Policy Studies, and the Inter-disciplinary Program in Climate Studies. He has earlier worked or held visiting positions at the Australian National University, National University of Singapore, and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. He held the India Value Fund Chair Professorship at IIT Bombay and has been Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay and Convener for the IDP in Climate Studies. He is the author of Collective Violence in a Provincial City (1997), and has co-edited "Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia" (2013). His research and teaching interests are in urban studies, law and governance, gender and development, climate studies, and