Pradip Kumar Datta is former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He had earlier taught as Professor, University of Delhi. He has written, co-authored, and edited several books including Khaki Short Saffron Flags: A Study of the Hindu Right, (Orient Longmans, 1993), Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Twentieth Century Bengal (OUP, 1999), Heterogeneities: Identity Formations in Modern India (Tulika, 2010), Indian Political Thought (OUP, 2013), and Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World: A Critical Companion (Anthem Press, 2005).