Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017) and In the Shadows of the State, Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (Duke, 2010). She has also written about affirmative action, labour migration, agrarian change and India and Nepal's Maoist inspired revolutionary struggles.

Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London. He has published on low castes, rural and migrant labour and agrarian relations in India for more than two decades. He is editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change and the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017).

Richard Axelby is a Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. His writing focuses on environmental history, natural resource management, science in colonial India, British identity and development work. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017).

Dalel Benbabaali is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She has previously taught at LSE and the Sorbonne University. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017).

Brendan Donegan is a Visiting Fellow in Anthropology at LSE. He previously held positions at SOAS and Goldsmiths, where he taught courses in Social Anthropology and Development Studies. He is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017).