Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and member of the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She studies environmental, legal, and colonial history in India and South Asia. Publications include Founding an Empire on India’s North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790-1840 (2014), Landscapes and the Law (2008) and Ecological Nationalisms (2006 with K. Sivaramakrishnan).