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Dr. Lipi Ghosh is a historian with specialization in Southeast Asian studies. She has obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Calcutta. Currently she is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. Formerly she was Visiting Scholar at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Maison des Sciences de 1' Hommes, Paris, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Ford Asia Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. She has wide range of publications in national and international academic journals. Her other published work is Burma: Myth of French Intrigue (Calcutta, 1994).

Monirul Hussain an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is a Professor of Political Science at Guahati University. Several of his papers have been published in reputed national and international academic journals. His book, The Assam Movement: Class, Ideology and Identity received wide appreciation. He co-edicted two volumes on Religious Minorities in South Asia: Selected Essays on Postcolonial Situation. He was Visiting Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Huose, University of Oxford for a year. Currenlty he is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam. Besides teaching and guiding doctoral research, he is now engaged in two kanor international research projects on Human Security in South Asia and Displacement of Population in North East-India.