G. N. Devy is the chief editor of the PLSI series. He taught at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, till 1996 before leaving to set up the Bhasha Research Centre in Baroda and the Adivasi Akademi at Tejgadh. There, he worked towards conserving and promoting the languages and culture of indigenous and nomadic communities. Apart from being awarded the Padma Shree, he has received many awards for his work in literature and language conservation.
Badri Narayan is a social historian and cultural anthropologist and the Director of GBPSSI, Allahabad. His interests range from memory and politics, contemporary histories, ethnography of marginalised politics, to Dalit and subaltern issues and identity formation and the question of power. He is the author of The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950–Present and editor of Uttar Pradesh-Ki Bhashayein (PLSI).
Rama Shanker Singh has an MA in Ancient History of India and PhD on community rights of subaltern castes from GBPSSI, Allahabad. His research interests are the life, language and politics of nomadic communities of Uttar Pradesh. Some of the translations he has worked on are Jati ke Viruddha Gandhi Ka Sangharsh (2019) and Khandit Akhyan: Bhartiya Jantantra Mein Adrishya Log (2018).