Dhaneswar Bhoi is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was the Associate Editor of Journal of the World Universities Forum, USA, and is the author of several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes including ‘Economic Growth, Development of Scheduled Castes and their Education: Line Drawn from Neoliberal Era in India’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE 2022).Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer & former Co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE), Co-editor of Civility in Crisis, Democracy, Equality, and the Majoritarian Challenge in India, Routledge, and author of Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (OUP, 2017).