At the time of his death #60;b#62;Burton Stein#60;/b#62; was Professorial Research Associate in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He had previously held professorships at the universities of Minnesota and Hawaii. His publications included #60;i#62;Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India#60;/i#62; (1980) and #60;i#62;Thomas Munro: The Origins of the Colonial State and his Vision of Empire#60;/i#62; (1989).#60;p#62;#60;b#62;David Arnold#60;/b#62; is Professor of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. His publications include #60;i#62;The Problem of Nature#60;/i#62; (Blackwell, 1996) and #60;i#62;Gandhi#60;/i#62; (2001).
David Arnold is professor emeritus of Asian and global history in the Department of History at the University of Warwick. Among his numerous works are Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India; Gandhi; and The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856.