Adeel Hussain

Adeel Hussain is an assistant professor at Leiden University and a senior research affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He was born in Sialkot, Pakistan, and holds two degrees in German Law (first and second state examination) as well as a master's and PhD from the University of Cambridge. His next book, Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India, is forthcoming in 2022. He now lives and works in The Hague. Tripurdaman Singh is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Born in Agra, India, Tripurdaman read politics and international studies at the University of Warwick and earned an MPhil in modern South Asian studies and a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the author of Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics (2019) as well as the widely acclaimed Sixteen Stormy Days (2020). He lives in Cambridge. Ketan Mishra is a journalist who writes mainly on films and cricket. He has been associated with Lallantop for a long time and is now working in Alt News. Before this book, he has also translated Rajdeep Sardesai's book Team Democracy.