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Kamala Ganesh is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai. Her areas of interest include gender studies, caste and kinship, and cultural studies. Professor Ganesh has earlier taught Sociology at St Xavier’s College and SNDT Women’s University, both in Mumbai. She was also Senior Fellow of the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), 1992-94, and Secretary of the Commission on Women, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1988-93). She has been involved in research work for the ICSSR and for UNESCO’s Population and Human Settlements Division. A member of the managing committee of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Kamala Ganesh has contributed numerous papers to journals and edited volumes, besides being the author of Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in a Tamil Community (1993) and the co-editor of Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Marriage and Kinship Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (Sage, 1998).

Manorama Savur’s initial training was in natural sciences and later in social sciences. She was awarded her Ph. D. in 1962. As a Professor of sociology for over twenty years, she taught sociology of development and rural sociology at the university of Bombay. In early 1980s her interest shifted to forests and the forest question. The present study is her post retirement project involving six years of research and extensive field work. She has three books and over thirty papers to her credit.