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John Harriss is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He also taught at the Universities of Cambridge and East Anglia, and at the London School of Economics, and held visiting positions at the National University of Singapore, and in the Centre of Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, John has lived and worked and done research in India over more than four decades, and has written on many different aspects of economy, politics and society in the country.

Craig Jeffrey is Director of the Australia India Institute and Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne. He has worked on contemporary India and youth for nearly 25 years. Building on long-term social research in north India, he has highlighted the positive contributions of marginalized youth to Indian society, working in Hindi and Urdu, which he speaks fluently. He has written eight books, including Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting in India (Stanford University Press, 2010). Professor Jeffrey has advised over thirty PhD researchers in Seattle, Oxford and Melbourne, and is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (Australia).

Trent Brown is DECRA Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne. For more than ten years, he has been engaged in research on contemporary India, exploring themes related to rural development, agricultural and environmental education, youth, and civil society. He is the author of Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists: Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His current research explores both formal and informal means of agricultural skill development in north India.