John Burton-Page was lecturer in the Art and Archaeology of India at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He died in 2005. He contributed more than 120 articles on all aspects of Indo-Islamic culture to the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
George Michell, Ph.D. (1974) in Indian Archaeology, University of London, and a student of John Burton-Page, is an architectural historian specialising in India. For more than 20 years he has co-directed an international research team at Hampi-Vijayanagara in South India. Among his many publications are: The Hindu Temple: An Introduction to its Meaning and Forms (Chicago 1988), and Art and Architecture of Southern India: Vijayanagara and the Successor States (Cambridge 1995).