Ranabir Samaddar is presently the director of the peace studies programme at the South Asia Forum for Human Rights. His two recent publications are: Memory, Power, Identity (1998) and The Marginal Nation (1999). He is the editor of the well-known volume, Reflections on Partition in the East (1997).
Helmut Reifeld is representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. He recently edited (together with Imtiaz Ahmad and Partha S. Ghosh) Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics (2000) and (together with Ambrose Pinto) Women in Panchayati Raj (2001).