Rajeshwari Vijay Pandharipande is University Distinguished Scholar/Teacher, Professor Emerita, Department of Religion, Linguistics, Sanskrit and Comparative and World Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Maya Khemlani David holds a PhD degree in Sociolinguistics. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, and a Research Associate in the Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya.  She is a widely published scholar in sociolinguistics and language policy and planning. 

Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, New York University-Steinhardt, USA. She is co-editor of Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion (with R. Pandaharipande and M. David, 2020 Multilingual Matters).