Mahesh Rangarajan is Professor of History and Environmental Studies in Sonipat, Haryana, India. He has a BA in History (Honours), Hindu College, Delhi University a MA in modern History from Balliol College, and a doctorate from Nuffield College, both Oxford University, UK. He has been Professor at the University of Delhi and been visiting Faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Benglauru and laso at Cornell University, USA and at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has also served as Director of the Teen Murti Library and Museum and been Vice Chancellor of Krea University. His works include Fencing the Forest (1996), India's Wildlife HIstory (2001) and Nature and Nation (2015). He co-authored Towards Coexistence: People, parks and wildlife (2001) and edited The Oxford Anthology of Indian Wildlife, Volumes 1 and 2 and Environmental Issues in India (2001). His co edited works include Battles with Nature (2003), Making Conservation Work (2007), India's Environmental History, Volumes I and 2 (2012), Shifting Ground ( 2014), Nature Without Borders ( 2014) and At Nature's Edge (2018). He was member of the Forest Advisory Committee 2008-2012 and Chair of the Elephant Task Force of the Government of India in 2010. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, is a recipient of the TN Khoshoo Memorial Prize and an Overseas Member of the American Historical Association, only the fourth Indian to have been elected to the membership.