Surinder S. Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His recent publications include India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions (co-edited with Edward Simpson, OUP, 2019); Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality (co-edited with Jules Naudet, OUP, 2019); A Handbook of Rural India (Orient Blackswan, 2018); Contested Hierarchies, Persisting Influence: Caste and Power in Twenty-First Century India (co-edited with James Manor, Orient Blackswan, 2018); Inequality in Capitalist Societies (co-authored with Boike Rehbien and Jesse Souza, Routledge, 2018); The Indian Middle-Class (co-authored with Aseem Prakash, OUP, 2016); Caste in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2015/2018); and Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions (OUP, 2012). He is among the first recipients of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists for the year 2012.
Jules Naudet is a CNRS Associate Research Professor at the Center for South Asian Studies, EHESS, Paris, and a CASBS Fellow at Stanford University (2021-2022). He has authored Stepping into the Elite (OUP, 2018), which revisits the classical question of the experience of moving from one class to another, co-edited Justifier l'ordre social (with Christophe Jaffrelot; University Press of France, 2013), and co-authored Ce que les riches pensent des pauvres (with Serge Paugam, Bruno Cousin, and Camila Giorgetti; Le Seuil, 2017), a comparative analysis of the representations of the poor by the inhabitants of upper-class neighbourhoods in Paris, Delhi, and São Paulo. Naudet is a member of the editorial board of SAMAJ (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal) and the co-editor-in-chief of La Vie des Idées/ Books & Ideas, an online journal hosted by the Collège de France. He co-edits the book series Exploring India's Elite with Surinder S. Jodhka.