Tom Brass formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and has carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India. He is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies and has published numerous articles and books on agrarian development, including Transitions (Brill, 2023).Raju J. Das is Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class relations, the state, uneven development, poverty, and politics of the Right and the Left. His most recent book is The Challenges of the New Social Democracy (Brill, 2023).