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  Dr Aminah MOHAMMAD-ARIF is a social anthropologist, research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), former joint director of the Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud/Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS – UMR 8564 EHESS-CNRS), and teaches at the EHESS. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2000 and the CNRS bronze medal in 2004. She is the Editor in chief of SAMAJ, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. She has extensively worked on religion and conflict among South Asian diasporas, and is currently coordinating a research team, with Grégoire Schlemmer, at the CEIAS, on “Religious Plurality and Reflexivity in South Asia." Select bibliography: “Relationships between Muslims and Hindus in the United States: Mlechhas versus Kafirs?”, in Crispin Bates, ed., Community, Empire and Migration (London: Palgrave, 2001); with Christine Moliner, eds., Migration and Constructions of the Other: Inter-Communal Relationships amongst South Asian diasporas (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal: 2007, special issue); with Christophe Jaffrelot, eds., Politique et religions en Asie du Sud: le sécularisme dans tous ses états? (Paris: Editions EHESS, 2012, Purushartha series).  Dr Laurent GAYER is a political scientist, research fellow at the CNRS, statutory member of the Centre de Recherches Internationales/Centre for International Studies (CERI – UMR 7050 CNRS-Sciences Po). He serves on the editorial board of several journals, including Critique internationale and the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). He specializes in the study of urban dynamics, minority affairs and violent mobilizations in India and Pakistan. Through his research on the violent transformation of South Asian cities, he also became interested in the role of poetry in the manufacturing of consensus and dissent among South Asian Muslims. He is currently involved in a historical and ethnographic research project on the labors of coexistence in the Muslim- majority qasbah town of Amroha, in the Indian province of Uttar Pradesh. Select bibliography: Karachi. Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014); with Christophe Jaffrelot, eds., Muslims in Indian cities. Trajectories of marginalization (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2012).  Prof. Christophe JAFFRELOT is a political scientist, senior research fellow at the CNRS, former director of CERI (UMR 7050 CNRS-Sciences Po). He is the Former director of the quarterly journal Critique internationale, he serves on the editorial board of several journals including Nations and nationalism, International Political Sociology, India Review and Asian Survey. He currently teaches at Sciences Po, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Montreal University and King’s College (London). His research focuses on the political culture of the lower castes and Dalits in India, the Hindu nationalist movement, the Muslims in India and ethnic conflicts in Pakistan. Select bibliography: The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to 1990s (Delhi: Penguin, 1999); with Laurent Gayer, eds., Muslims in Indian cities. Trajectories of marginalization (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2012).  Dr Grégoire SCHLEMMER is a social anthropologist, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement/the Institute for development research (IRD), statutory member of Unité de Recherche Migrations et Sociétés/Migrations and Societies Research Unit (URMIS – UMR 205 IRD/CNRS/Université Paris 7-Diderot) and associate member of the CEIAS (UMR 8564 EHESS- CNRS). His research focuses on ethnic minorities in two mountainous areas of Asia where he spent eight years: a valley of the Nepalese Himalayas and a Laotian province forming the transition between Indochina and China. From the study of religious phenomena and forms of belonging placed in their geopolitical and historical context, he is interested in the way people think the world and, in doing so, act on it. Select bibliography: Rituels, territoires et pouvoirs dans les marges sino-indiennes. Special issue of Moussons, N°19, 2012. « Jeux d’esprits. Ce que sont les esprits pour les Kulung», Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions N° 145, 2009. « Les vicissitudes de l’ethnonyme “Kirant”: de l’orientalisme aux revendications identitaires », Les faiseurs d’histoire. Politique de l'origine et écrits sur le passé, Gisèle Krauskopff ed., Paris: Société d’Ethnologie, 2009, p. 55-84.