More Signatures and particulars of the petitioners

TO: the undersigned, hereby add our names to this petition:

  

Rukun Advani Editor Permanent Black New Delhi	Sugata Bose Gardiner Professor of History Department of History Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138
Seema Alavi Zakir Husain Professor of History Jamia Millia University New Delhi	Christiane Brosius, South Asia Institute,  Heidelberg University, Germany
Shahid Amin Professor of  History University of Delhi	Urvashi Butalia, Director, Zubaan Books  New Delhi
Sunil Amrith Lecturer in History Birkbeck College, University of London London WC1E7HX	John Catdwell Outreach Manager NC Center for South Asia Studies  Duke University, Durham, NC
G. Arunima Associate Professor Women's Studies Programme School of Social Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University	Dipesh Chakrabarty Lawrence Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies The University of Chicago
Ishita Banerjee-Dube Associate Professor Center for Asian and African Studies El Colegio de Mexico	Uma Chakravarti,  Delhi University
Meena Bhargava, Reader, Indraprastha  College, University of Delhi	Shefali Chandra Assistant Professor of History; Gender & Women's Studies  University of Illinois, Urbana,Champaign Urbana IL 61801
Rinki Bhattcharya Calcutta	Kumkum Chatterjee, Associate Prof. Dept. of History, the  Pennsylvania State University
Brinda Bose Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India	Indrani Chatterjee, Associate Professor, History Department, Rutgers University , NJ
Partha Chatterjee Department of  Anthropology Columbia University, New York	Shubha Chaudhuri Associate Director General Archives and Research Centre "for Ethnomusicology American Institute of Indian Studies New Delhi
Lawrence  Cohen Director, Medical Anthropology Program, and Associate Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian  Studies University of California, Berkeley	Frank F. Conlon, Professor Emeritus,  University of Washington
Matthew A. Cook, Lecturer Sociology and Anthropology Department North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8107	Vasudha Dalmia Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in S & SE Asian Studies, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies  University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
Yashodhara Dalmia, Art Historian 27  Akbar Road New Delhi 110011	E. Valentine Daniel Professor of  Anthropology Columbia University New York, NY 10027
Manoshi Mitra Das Senior Social Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank	Naisargi N. Dave Assistant Professor of Anthropology  University of Toronto
Richard H. Davis Professor, Religion and  Asian Studies Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504	Devangana Desai, Editor, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Former Vice-President, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Ritu Dewan Department of Economics, University of Mumbai	Saurabh Dube Professor of History Center for Asian and African Studies El Colegio de Mexico  Mexico
Ranjeeta Dutta, Dept. of History and Culture, Jamia Millta Islamia.	Sharon Epstein Consultant, International Health 3905 Lewis P. Olds Wynd,  Raleigh, N.C. 27612
Carl W. Ernst Director, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor Department of Religious Studies University of North Carolina Chapel Hill  NC 27599-3225	Munis D. Faruqui Assistant Professor Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies  University of California, Berkeley
Anne Feldhaus Foundation Professor of Religious Studies Arizona State University Box 873104 Tempe.AZ 85287-3104	Julie Flowerday, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sewanee, The University of the South
John R. Freeman, Research Associate Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.	Sandria B. Freitag, PhD Associate Director  North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies and Duke University
Shailesh Gandhi B2, Gokul Apartment,  Podar Road, Santacruz(w), Mumbai 400054.	Kamala Ganesh Professor, Dept. of Sociology University of Mumbai Kalina Campus Mumbai 400098
Jayati Ghosh Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi	Anjan Ghosh Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Institute for Asian Studies  Portland State University Portland, OR 97207
Priyamvada Gopal University Senior Lecturer and Fellow,  Churchill College University of Cambridge, UK	David Gilmartin, Professor of History, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, USA
Manu Goswami Department of  History New York University	Ravindran Gopinath, Professor, Department of History Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi
Sumit Guha Professor, Department of History, Director, South Asian Studies Program New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901	Charu Gupta, Historian and Fellow,  Nehru Memorial Museum & Library New Delhi
Matthew S. Hull Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115	Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Alison Judge Post-graduate student at the London School of Economics (Anthropology Department) London, U.K.	Kajri Jain, University of Western  Ontario Canada
Geeta Kapur, Independent Art Critic, former colleague of Prof.Papiya Ghosh as Fellows at the Nehru Memorial Museum  and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi.	Monica Juneja, Erasmus Visiting Professor, Institut fur Geschichte, University of Vienna, Austria
Meenakshi Khanna, Reader in History  Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University	Suvir Kaul Professor of English Director, South Asia Center University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Udaya Kumar Professor of Cultural Studies Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,  Calcutta, Kolkata, India	Ruqayya Yasmine Khan Assistant Professor Department of Religion Trinity University San Antonio, TX 78212
Steven Lawry, President,  Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio USA	Nita Kumar Brown Family Professor of South Asian History N. American Co-editor Gender & History Claremont McKenna College, ClaremontCA 91711
Ania Loomba Catherine Bryson Professor of English University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 19104-6273	Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi
Rolin Mainuddin Associate Professor of Political Science  North Carolina Central University,	James M. Lindholm, Lecturer in Tamil Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,  University of Chicago
Rochona Majumdar Assistant Professor Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations  University of Chicago	Avinash C. Maheshwary South Asia Librarian for The Research Triangle Libraries Network, Duke University Library Durham , Noth Carolina, 27708-0195
Sucheta Mazumdar, Associate Professor,  Duke University	Malabika Majumdar Reader, Dept of Philosophy Kamala Nehru College (University of Delhi) Khel Gaon Marg New Delhi  110017
	Michelle Maskiell,  Montana State University Bozeman, MT USA 59715
Barbara D. Metcalf Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History Director, Center for South Asian Studies University of Michigan	Dilip Menon, Visiting Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 OAG, U.K.
Christopher Minkowski Boden Professor of Sanskrit Balliol College, Oxford	Thomas R. Metcalf, Professor of  History Emeritus University of California, Berkeley
Farina Mir Assistant Professor, Department of History University of Michigan	Lauren Nauta Minsky, Assistant Professor Department of History North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8108
Janaki Nair Professor of History Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Kolkata 700 094	B. N. Mohapatra, Researcher and Poet Formerly at JNU, Delhi
Uttara Natarajan, Senior Lecturer Department of English and Comparative Literature Goldsmiths,  University of London	Neeti Nair, Assistant Professor in History, University of Virginia
Veena Talwar Oldenburg Professor of History,  Baruch College & The Graduate Center  City University of New York, New York NY 10010.	James H. Nye, Director, South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago
Kavita Panjabi,  Jadavpur University	Gyanendra Pandey Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Department of History  Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322
Carla R. Petievich Professor of  History Montclair State University New Jersey, USA	Sujata Patel, Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology  University of Pune Pune 411007 INDIA
Sheldon Pollock The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Chairman, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia  University	William R. (Vijay), Pinch Professor of  History Wesleyan University Middletown, CT 06459
Gyan Prakash Dayton-Stockton Professor of History & Director, Shelby  Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544	Jacques Pouchepadass Senior Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
Ratna Raman, Reader in English, Sri Venkateswara College, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi 110021	Mridu Rai, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
Mahesh Rangarajan Visiting Professor, Department of History,  Jadavpur University, Kolkata	Sumathi Ramaswamy Professor of History  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kumkum Roy, Associate Professor Centre for Historical  Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067	Raka Ray, Sarah Kailath Chair of  India Studies, University of California-Berkeley
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Chicago	Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Chicago
Mamta G. Sagar Writer/Academician Hyderabad	Satish Saberwal formerly Professor of Sociology Centre for Historical Studies Jawahartal Nehru University New Delhi 110 067
Kumkum Sangari  Nehru Memorial Museum and Library/University of Wisocnsin-Milwaukee	Yasmin Saikia Associate Professor' Department of History UNC - Chapel Hill NC - 27599, USA
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.	Sumit Sarkar, Retired Professor of History, University of Delhi.
School of Women's Studies Director and Staff Jadavpur University Kolkata 700 032	Lee I. Schlesinger, Ph.D., Associate, Center for South Asian Studies, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Shuddhabrata Sengupta Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi-110054	Samita Sen,  School of Women's Studies,  Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Lata Singh, Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, N.Delhi	Suresh Sharma Professor and Director Centre for the Study of Developing Societies Delhi-110054.
Lakshmi Subramanian, Senior fellow in History Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta	Mrinalini Sinha Department of History The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA 16802-5500, USA
Nandini Sundar Institute of Economic Growth Delhi	Nikita Sud, Lecturer in Politics, University of York YO10 5DD.UK
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Visiting Professor, New York University	Afroz Taj Associate Professor of Hindi-Urdu Dept. of Asian Studies UNC Chapel Hill
Cynthia Talbot, Associate Professor of History,  University of Texas at Austin	Clare V. Talwalker, Visiting Assistant Professor International and  Area Studies University of California, Berkeley
Romila Thapar Professor Emeritus,  Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi	Susie Tharu, Professor [Retd] CIEFL,  Hyderabad
Thomas R. Trautmann, Professor of History and Anthropology University of Michigan	Jonathan S. Walters, Associate Professor and Chair, Religion, and Paul Garrett Fellow in the Humanities, Whitman College, Washington (USA)
Rachana Rao Umashankar, Doctoral Student Department of  Anthropology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Shalini R. Urs Executive Director and Professor  International School of Information Management  University of Mysore Mysore - 570006
Gauri Viswanathan, Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities  Columbia University
Prof. S. Bhattacharya, Retd. Professor of Economic History, JNU/Former V-C, Viswabharati	Dr. P.K. Shukla, Member Secretary Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
Dr. R. P. Singh,  Delhi University	Prof. K.C. Yadav, Former Head of Deptt. of History,  Kurukshetra University
Dr. Kaushik Roy  Presidency College, Kolkata	Shashank Sinha, Editor,