Dr Ganesh N Devy taught English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; a renowned literary critic and activist; founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat; and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Folk Traditions. He is an active participant in the functioning of Bhasha Academy. He was awarded the Padmashri in 2014.
He is Chair, People’s Linguistic Survey of India, 37, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda.
Professor Badri Narayan is the volume editor of Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan : Uttar Pradesh Ki Bhashayen (Volume 29, Part1) (Hindi). He is presently the professor in Centre for the study of discrimination and exclusion, Social of Social Science, Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been identified among top ten intellectuals in India by the reputed magazine, INDIA TODAY in 2010. His recent publication is Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits, Penguin Books, and New Delhi 2014. His other important publications are The making of the Dalit public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950-present, Oxford University Press, (2011), Fascinating Hindutva : Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilization ( 2009 ) and Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India ( 2006 ) from Sage Publication, New Delhi. His books and writings have been included in the course of various universities like the University of Chicago, Columbia University and also in Indian Universities and taught to the students.
Mr. Ramashankar Singh an editorial associate in this volume. He is a senior research fellow at G B Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. He is MA (Ancient History) from Awadh University, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh.