Carol Upadhya is Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengalura, India, where she directs the Urban and Mobility Studies Programme. She is the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016).

Mario Rutten (late) was Professor of Comparative Anthropology and Sociology of Asia at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was the author of Asian Capitalists in the European Mirror (1994), Farms and Factories (1995), Rural Capitalists in Asia (Routledge Curzon, 2003), and 'You had a Nice Holiday?: Stories about Anthropological Fieldwork (in Dutch, 2007).

Leah Koskimaki is a sociocultural anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. Previously she conducted research with the Provincial Globalisation Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bengalura, India.