Martin Fuchs holds the Professorship for Indian Religious History at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Centre forAdvanced Cultural and Social Studies), University of Erfurt (Germany), and is member of the M.S. Merian - R. TagoreInternational Centre of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences 'Metamorphoses of the Political'(ICAS:MP) in Delhi (India). Trained in Anthropology and Sociology he previously taught at the Universities of Zuerich (Switzerland), Heidelberg and Paderbor (Germany), Free University Berlin, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), and University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand). His research interests include cultural and social theory, urban anthropology, social movements, Dalit studies and religious individualization; his regional focus is on IndiaVasudha Dalmia is Professor Emerita, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Martin Fuchs holds the Professorship for Indian Religious History at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Centre forAdvanced Cultural and Social Studies), University of Erfurt (Germany), and is member of the M.S. Merian - R. TagoreInternational Centre of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences 'Metamorphoses of the Political'(ICAS:MP) in Delhi (India). Trained in Anthropology and Sociology he previously taught at the Universities of Zuerich (Switzerland), Heidelberg and Paderbor (Germany), Free University Berlin, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), and University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand). His research interests include cultural and social theory, urban anthropology, social movements, Dalit studies and religious individualization; his regional focus is on IndiaVasudha Dalmia is Professor Emerita, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Martin Fuchs holds the Professorship for Indian Religious History at the Max-Weber-Kolleg (Max Weber Centre forAdvanced Cultural and Social Studies), University of Erfurt (Germany), and is member of the M.S. Merian - R. TagoreInternational Centre of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences 'Metamorphoses of the Political'(ICAS:MP) in Delhi (India). Trained in Anthropology and Sociology he previously taught at the Universities of Zuerich (Switzerland), Heidelberg and Paderbor (Germany), Free University Berlin, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary), and University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand). His research interests include cultural and social theory, urban anthropology, social movements, Dalit studies and religious individualization; his regional focus is on IndiaVasudha Dalmia is Professor Emerita, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.