Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Modern Global History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich) Switzerland. He has published extensively on South Asian colonial history and the history of the British Empire. His research interests include global and transnational history, the history of knowledge and the social and cultural history of colonial South Asia. His many publications include Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Class, and 'White Subalternity' in Colonial India (2009) and Shyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (2014).

Maria Framke is a historian at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, Germany. She works on the history of imperial, international and nationalist politics, humanitarianism, and ideologies in the twentieth century. She is also the author of Engagement with Italian Fascism and German National Socialism in India, 1922-1939 (2013).