Aparna Balachandran, Teacher, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.,Rashmi Pant, Fellow, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi,Bhavani Raman, Teacher, Department of History, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Aparna Balachandran teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. She has contributed to journals on religious identity and history of communities as well as on colonial law.

Rashmi Pant is Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and teaches at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India. She has contributed articles to journals on the history of caste formation in colonial India.

Bhavani Raman teaches at the Department of History, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India (2012).

"This book is an important and necessary contribution to the field of Indian legal history. ... The book raises relevant questions regarding currently accepted notions of colonial law and seeks to explain how law at times empowered and created new narratives of history. The bibliography at the end of the book provides an extensive resource for scholars seeking an overview of work done in this and related fields, and is therefore extremely useful." -- Rahela Khorakiwala, Rechtsgeschichte