Eleanor Zelliot is Professor of History at Carleton College. She has published extensively in the area of social and cultural history of Western India. Maxine Berntsen received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been living in India since 1966, and in 1978 became an Indian citizen. She resides in Phaltan, Maharashtra, where she has established two schools. She is also the co-author of a six-volume book on the Marathi language.