Dilip M Menon, the editor of this volume is Reader in Modern Indian History at University of Delhi. He is the Author of Caste, Nationalism and communism in South India:Malabar 1900-48  and The Blindness of  Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India. He is currently visiting Associate Professor in the School of Literature and Language Studies in the University of Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa.

The contributors to this volume are :  Mr Ramachandra Guha, Dr Tanika Sarkar, Dr Rustom Bharucha,  Dr Sumita S Chakravarty, Dr Patricia Uberoi and Dr Amanda Weidman.

Mr Bipender Kumar, who translated this book into Hindi, is a freelance Hindi journalist based in Patna.

 1. Cricket aur Jatee: Palwankar Bandhuon ka Shauryapurna Sangharsh
      [Cricket and Caste: The Heroic Struggles of Palwanker Brothers]

2.Apni Kitab, Apni Jindagi: 19vi shatabdi ki ek Mahilla ka Atmakatha
   [A Book of Her Own, A life of Her Own: The Autobiography Of a 19th Century Woman]

3.Vartman mein Ateet    [The Past in the Present]

4.Rastrvadi Pehchan aur Yatharthvadi Saundrya     [ National Identity and Realist Aesthetic]

5.Anekta mein Ekta? Bhartiya Calendar art mein Rastriyata ki Duvidha
   [Unity in Diversity? Dilemmas of Nationalhood in Indian Calendar Art]

6. Guru evm Garmophone: Nistha aur Adhunik Technology ki Kahani
[Guru and Gramophone: Fantasies of Fidelity and Modern Technologies of the Real]