Osmund Bopearachchi is Adjunct Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Emeritus Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-ENS Paris). He has also been Visiting Professor and Member of the Doctoral School VI of Paris IV-Sorbonne University. He has published 11 books, edited 6 others, and published 150 articles in reputed international journals.

Suchandra Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History & Culture, University of Calcutta. She takes a broad interest in the politico-cultural history of North-West India, south-eastern Bengal’s links with early South-East Asia, and the Indian Ocean Buddhist and trade network. She is the Author of From the Oxus to the Indus: A Political and Cultural Study (c. 300 BCE to c. 100 BCE) (2017) and Exploring Connectivity: South Eastern Bengal and Beyond  (2014). She is one of the editors of Issues in Agrarian History of India: Essays in Memory of D.C. Sircar (2017) and Subversive Sovereigns Across the Seas, Indian Ocean Ports-of-Trade from Early Historic Times to Late Colonialism (2017). She also edited two volumes of Journal of Ancient Indian History.