| Professor Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York, Oswego, USA |
| Professor Chittabrata Palit, former Professor, Jadavpur University, Director, Corpus Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Professor Ananda Gopal Ghosh, former Professor, North Bengal University, West Bengal, India |
| Professor Sachindra Nath Bhattacharya, former Professor, Calcutta University, West Bengal, India |
| Professor Mohammad Salim, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Professor Nirban Basu, former Mahatma Gandhi Professor, Calcutta University, West Bengal, India |
| Professor Ali Athar, Aligarh Muslim University, UP, India |