Deepak K. Mishra is Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His research interests are in the areas of the political economy of agrarian change, rural livelihoods and agrarian institutions, and migration. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (2012), has edited Internal Migration in Contemporary India (2016) and has co-edited Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Emerging Dynamics (2017).
Pradeep Nayak has completed his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and was until recently Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. He is a member of the Odisha Administrative Service and works as the Chief General Manager, Odisha State Disaster Management Authority, Bhubaneswar. He has contributed extensively to the study of land administration in India. Hispublication includes The State and Land Records Modernisation (2015).