Sumit Ganguly is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for the academic year 2023-2024. A specialist on the international and comparative politics of South Asia, he is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books on the region. Ganguly is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Editor-in-Chief of the International Studies Review, and the founding editor of The India Review. His most recent book, co-authored with Manjeet S. Pardesi and William R. Thompson, is The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order, published by Cambridge University Press. Eswaran Sridharan is the Academic Director and Chief Executive, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), Delhi. He is a political scientist whose published work includes that on political parties, party system change, coalition politics, political finance, the political economy of liberalization, the Indian middle classes, and international relations theory and India as an emerging power. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo), University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of ten books, with four forthcoming titles, and has published 96 academic articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the refereed pan-social science India-dedicated journal, India Review, published by Taylor & Francis, UK.