Kumkum Roy & Naina Dayal

KUMKUM ROY teaches ancient Indian social history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications include The Emergence of Monarchy in North India (1994) and The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power (2010). She is interested in gender, political institutions, histories of marginalized groups as well as in pedagogical issues pertaining to the teaching of history, and has worked with teams involved in the production of school textbooks at the state and national level.

NAINA DAYAL teaches history at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. Her research interests include the period c.320 bce-300 ce, during which the Sanskrit Ramayana and Mahabharata took shape.