Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Nehru University, India. He received his MA in sociology from Pune University and PhD in sociology from Panjab University, Chandigarh (India). Before joining Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2006 he taught at the University of Hyderabad and Panjab University. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities – old and new – and the processes of their reproduction. The empirical foci of his work have been the dynamics of caste; studies of agrarian social change and contemporary rural India; and the political sociology of community identities. He has authored/edited 17 books and has published nearly 100 research papers. He is among the first recipients of the Indian Council of Social Science Research-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, for the year 2012. Boike Rehbein (1965-2022) was Professor of Society and Transformation at Humboldt University, Berlin. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Freiburg, and was assistant and associate professor of sociology at the University of Freiburg. He moved to the Humboldt University as a full Professor in 2009. His areas of specialization were social inequality, social theory, globalization and Southeast Asia. He published more than 25 books and nearly a 100 research papers, most of which explored dimensions of inequality in the contemporary world. His has published in both German and English languages. Some of his books have also been translated into other languages. Section-Editors Benjamin BaumannDaniel BultmannLara HofnerDivya VaidVamsichanran Vakubharnam