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Dr. D.P. Tripathi, Professor at C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & technology, kanpur (U.P.), obtained degree of B.Sc. (Ag.) from University of Gorakhpur in 1966 and served as lecturer (Agriculture) in a teacher's Training College during 1967. he received degree of M.Sc. (Ag.) (Plant Pathology) standing first class first from Government Agricultural College, kanpur affiliated with Kanpur university in 1969 and received degree of Ph.D. from C.S. Azad university of Agric. And tech., Kanpur (U.P.) in 1983. he took long term advanced hand on training and expertise in 'Molecular Diagnostics' from IARI, new Delhi. Academically, he is also qualified in law and Indian medicine. Having experience of more than 35 years as teacher and scientist, he worked on different diseases of economic crops for their management and taught various courses both at under graduate and post graduate levels. He has published many research papers related with crop diseases management in reputed journals and is member of various academic societies. He is Honorary Secretary of Social Welfare research and development Society, Kanpur. In addition to this book, Dr. Tripathi has authored five other books entitled 'A Text Book of Plant Pathology', 'Introductory Plant Virology', 'Introductory Mycology' and 'Mushroom Cultivation' (one in Hindi and other in English).

B.R. Deepak is working as an Associate Professor of Chinese at the Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is recipient of many scholarships and awards including the prestigious Nehru Fellowship and India-China Cultural Exchange Fellowship for his doctoral and advanced studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University, Beijing, respectively. Dr. Deepak has received his MBA from the Lancaster University Management School, UK, and Ph.D. ion Chinese history and language from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. India and china 1904-2004: A Century of Peace and Conflict is the product of his postdoctoral studies (2002-2003) at the Scottish Centre for Chinese Studies in the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century (2001), Zhongguo wenxueshi gaiyao jiqi daibiaozuo shanxi (Concise History of Chinese Literature with Selected Lliteraray Texts) (2001), Chinese-Hindi Dictionary (2003) and co-author of Sanyukt Rashtra Bhasha Kosh (United Nations Languages Dictionary) (2002), as well as other works on India-China relations. The author has been a guest lecturer in the University of Free Berlin and University of Bremen in Germany, and has taught Chinese language, literature and civilization in the University of Edinburgh, UK.