K.M. Shrimali (b.1947), an alumnus of St Stephen's College (University of Delhi), taught at his alma mater for more than a decade. Thereafter he joined the University of Delhi in 1981, where he is currently a Professor since 1986. His publications include History of Pancala, Vol. I : A Study (1983); History of Pancala, Vol. II: Corpus of Coins (1985); Agrarian Structure in Central India and the Northern Deccan: A Study in Vakataka Inscriptions (1987); Dharma, Samaj aur Sanskriti (in Hindi, 2005); and The Age of Iron and the Religious Revolution, c. 700c. 350 BC (2nd edn., 2008). Professor Shrimali was elected to preside over the Ancient Indian History Section of the Indian History Congress in 1988.
