Bipasha Raha is Professor of History at Visva-Bharati. With over thirty years of postgraduate teaching and research experience, she is the author and co-editor of four books focusing on the agrarian, socio-cultural, and intellectual history of colonial India. A recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship, her major publications include The Pen and the Plough: Agriculture, Peasantry and the Literati in Colonial Bengal (2012) and Living a Dream: Rabindranath Tagore and Rural Resuscitation (2014), alongside the co-edited volumes Tilling the Land (2016) and Mapping the Path to Maturity (2018).

Amarendra Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Visva-Bharati. Formerly a faculty member at the National Defence Academy, he completed his higher studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and earned his Ph.D. from the Savitribai Phule Pune University. His research focuses on medieval Indian, Maratha, and military history, especially maritime power in early modern India. He is the editor of Tides of Triumph: The Maratha Navy Saga and has contributed to major publications on global military history.