Khalid Wasim Hassan is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Governance at Central University of Kashmir, India. He is currently a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, UK, and has previously been a visiting research fellow at the University of Munster (2016), Germany, at South Asian Institute, SOAS (2017), at the University of Cambridge (2018) and at the Birkbeck, University of London (2020). His research focuses on political violence, gender and public spaces and subaltern communities in South Asia. His previous ethnographic works have been published in American Ethnologist, Third World Quarterly and the Routledge Handbook of Childhood and Development. Deepanshu Mohan is Professor of Economics and Dean, IDEAS, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Director, Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES) at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. He is a visiting fellow at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Oxford University, a visiting professor to the South East Asia Centre (SEAC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an honorary research fellow with Birkbeck, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of London, since 2022. His previous visiting affiliations have included institutions such as the School of International Development, University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada), FGV (Rio, Brazil), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Department of Economics, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), to name a few. His research interests include development studies, urban studies, comparative political economy, international economics and economic history. His previous books include Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Brazil and Russia; Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India; and Pan-India Stories of Informal Workers During Covid-19 Pandemic: Crisis Narratives. Ishfaq Ahmad Wani is a senior research analyst at the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. His research interests include marginalisation, identity politics and tribal communities. His previous ethnographic works have been published in the Routledge South Asia Series (Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India). Najam Us Saqib is a senior research analyst at the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), O. P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. He also works on postcolonial caste politics and decolonising caste. His research interests include identity, caste and politics of marginalisation. His previous ethnographic works have been published in the Routledge South Asia Series (Contemporary Voice of Dalit and Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India).
