Ujjwal Kumar Singh is Professor in the Department of Political Science in the University of Delhi. He has been writing on a range of themes including democracy and social movements, law and democracy and political institutions in India. He is the author of the books Political Prisoners in India; and The State, Democracy and Anti-Terror Laws in India, has co-edited Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Law in India and Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institution and Movements. His articles have appeared in several national and international journals. He has been a visiting fellow in universities in India and abroad.
Anupama Roy is a Professor at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her research interests straddle legal studies, political anthropology of political institutions, political ideas, and gender studies. She is the author of the books Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations, and Mapping Citizenship in India, and has co-edited Poverty, Gender and Migration in South Asia. Her most recent publication is the Oxford India Short Introduction to Citizenship in India. Her research articles have appeared in various national and international journals and she has been a visiting scholar in universities in India and abroad.