Ratnalekha Ray

Ratnalekha Ray obtained her Ph.D. on Permanent Settlement in Bengal from the Cambridge University, UK. She taught History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Later she went to the Netherands. She has contributed several articles to prestigious journals and her last article was on Maheshganj Pal Chowdhury, the oldest family of the Pal Chowdhuries of Maheshganj, before her untimely demise in 1985. Ananda Bhattacharyya is Assistant Director, Directorate of State Archives, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata. He is the author of a large number of books and has also edited and introduced several publications.