Gurudas Das is currently a faculty member at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. He has served as Reader at the Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University, as Fellow at the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development and as Lecturer at St Anthony's College, Shillong. He has also published widely.

C. Joshua Thomas is Deputy Director at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, North Eastern Regional Centre (ICSSR-NERC), Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Previously, he has worked at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Chennai; Wangkhao College, Mon, Nagaland and Union Christian College, Barapani, Meghalaya. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books on Northeast India and has contributed research papers in journals. He is the Managing Editor of Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies for the last twelve years.