Joanna Williams holds a joint appointment as Professor of South and Southeast Asian studies and of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkley; her books include The Two-Headed Deer: Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa.

Tushara Bindu Gude is Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Cynthia Talbot, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of Precolonia India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra and co-author of India before Europe

Tryna Lyons, an art historian who has worked with traditional Indian painters and sculptors, is the author of The Artists of Nathadwara: The Practice of Paining in Rajasthan.

Kavita Singh is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she teaches courses on Indian painting and the history of museums.

Jyotindra Jain Professor and Chair of the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, is the former director of the Crafts Museum, New Delhi, and the author of numerous books and articles on Indian folk and traditional arts.