लेखक: Shashi Joshi

Shashi Joshi has a PhD in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She began her academic career as senior lecturer in history at Miranda House, University of Delhi, was senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and from 1983-97, was co-director of an Indian Council of Social Science research project. She is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. The author has several publications to her credit, including Struggle of Hegemony in India: The Colonial State, the Left and the Indian National Movement, Volume I, and Struggle for Hegemony in India: Culture, Community and Power, Volume 3.