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Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt is a Manipuri born in Imphal, Manipur. She obtained her doctorate from the Australian National University under the supervision of the renowned Indologist the late A.L. Basham. She has lectured at several universities in Africa and has been visiting professor at the University of Manipur. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham. She has written extensively on Manipur’s history and culture in articles that have been published in international journals and is the author of several books.

Professor John Parratt (b. 1938) was until his retirement in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham, U.K. He was taught and researched extensively in Africa, India, and the Pacific, and is the author of numerous books on the interaction of religion, politics, and culture in the developing world. Together with his wife, Dr. Saroj N. Arambam Parratt, He has published several scholarly papers and two books on Manipur, Queen Empress vs. Tikendrajit: The Anglo-Manipur Conflict of 1891 (New Delhi, 1997).