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Leela. B. Jois was formerly Librarian of the South Indian Education Society's College of Arts and Science, Mumbai. Her book Mysore Sankritika Sankathana in Kannada was published by the Kannada Department of the Mumbai University in 2010. She has contributed to a number of journals like Indica (journal of the Heras Society), Freedom First and the journal of the Itihas Academy, Karnataka. She has participated in various national seminars. Leela is a prominent member of various cultural organizations and has a deep understanding of Carnatic music.

Purnima Srikrishna has worked as a lecturer in English at the Dr. B. M. N. college of Home Science, S.N.D.T. University, Mumbai. She was awarded a research grant by the Telang Memorial Scholarship for 2004-05 by the Asiatic Society, Mumbai, to pursue her doctoral research on The Vidyashankara Temple at Sringeri'. In 2006, the Luigi and Laura Dallapiccola Foundation, Edinburgh, also awarded her a scholarship to pursue her doctoral research. She was awarded a PhD by the University of Mumbai in 2010. She has presented papers at many seminars and conferences such as the International Conference on 'South India under Vijayanagara, Recent research in art and archaeology' at Sophia College of Women, Mumbai, which has now been published by Oxford University Press (2011). The paper she presented at the Seminar on 'Krishnadevaraya and his Times—Cultural Perspectives' has been published by the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai (2013). She has delivered the 20th Justice Telang Memorial lecture at the Asiatic Society of Munabai and has been invited to deliver lectures at various other institutions such the Cama Oriental Institute, the Dakshinamnaya Sharada Peetham (Sringeri), Kannada University (Hampi), the J.C.B.M. College (Sringeri) and the Heras Institute and L.S. Raheja College of Arts and Commerce, Mumbai.