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Geetha B. Nambissan retired as a professor from the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research has focused on marginal groups in Indian society such as Dalits and Adivasis and the urban poor. She has also been interested in the social implications of increasing privatisation of education. Additionally, she is one of the associate editors of The Oxford Encyclopaedia of School Reform (2022).Nandini Manjrekar retired as a professor from the School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her teaching and research interests have been in the areas of gender studies and in sociology and social history of education. She has edited Gender and Education in India: A Reader (2021) and has also written on issues of gender and Indian schooling. She has been involved with various policy research projects on education in different parts of India. She has also worked on executive committees of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) and the Indian Association of Women's Studies (IAWS) and was joint editor of the journal Contemporary Education Dialogue.Shivali Tukdeo is a professor at Indira Mahindra School of Education, Mahindra University, Hyderabad. She is a scholar of education policy. The primary focus of her work has been the ways in which policy ideas are constructed, circulated and translated in diverse contexts. Her book India Goes to School: Education Policy and Cultural Politics (2019) looks at the entanglements of policy in recent decades as transnational and extra-national actors along with the state have become partners in producing and furthering policy agendas.Indra Sengupta is a senior research fellow and the head of the India Research Programme at the German Historical Institute London. She is a historian of knowledge practices in colonial contexts. She has jointly edited with Daud Ali the volume Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India (2011).
