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B. K. Nagla is former Professor of Sociology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana. He obtained his master's degree from Udaipur University, Udaipur, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Before joining at M.D. University, Rohtak, in 1978, he taught at M.S. University, Baroda, and Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, New Delhi. After retirement in 2006, he worked as Consultant at Kota Open University and also at Banaras Hindu University as Professor, Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair. Professor Nagla has published 12 books in areas like political sociology, Indian sociological thought, and social strati¿cation. His main books are: Factionalism, Politics and Social Structure; Political Sociology; Development and Transformation; Social Strati¿cation and Social Mobility; and Indian Sociological Thought. He has about 70 research papers in national and international journals. He received an ISC Fellow Award for the growth anddevelopment of the Indian Society of Criminology given by the Council of the Indian Society of Criminology, af¿liated with the International Society of Criminology, Paris. In 2017, Sulabh International Social Organization conferred upon him 'Sulabh Swachhata Samman' with Gold Medal for authoring an outstanding book, Sociology of Sanitation. He is awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Rajasthan Sociological Society and also by the Indian Sociological Society. He was also the editor of the Indian Sociological Society Journal (Hindi), Bhartiya Samajshastra Sameeksha (published by Sage).
Kameshwar Choudhary is former Professor of Sociology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow, India. Earlier, he was Professor of Sociology at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Associate Professor at Institute of Rural Management, Anand (Gujarat); and Lecturer in Sociology at Institute of Social Sciences, Agra. He was Visiting Fellow at CSSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Associate at the Indian Institute of