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Betty Heimarin studied Sanskrit and cultural epistemology in Kiel, Heidelberg, Gottingen and Bonn. In 1919, Heimann received her PhD from Kiel University where her thesis was on Upaniad Bhaya. She emigrated to England in 1933 and taught at the University of London. From 1945 to 1949 Heimann was a professor at the University of Ceylon in Colombo, Ceylon, founding the Department of Sanskrit at the university.

Her book, Indian and Western Philosophy: A Study in Contrasts (1937) is based on the Forlong Fund Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society. The Society also published her work on the Sanskrit langauge entitled The Significance of Prefixes in Sanskrit Philosophical Terminology in 1951.

Sir Max Mallowan was a British archaeologist specialising in ancient Middle East history. He is best known for his extensive excavations at major sites such as Ur, Nineveh, Nimrud, and the Eye Temple at Tell Brak. He married the novelist Agatha Christie in 1930 who joined him for regular expeditions to Syria and Iraq.

Christopher J. Fuller is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1976, Fuller started field research in the great temple of Madurai in Tamilnadu, southeast India, which is dedicated to the Hindu goddess Minakshi. Fuller has also researched and written extensively on popular Hinduism and Hindu nationalism, the caste system, the anthropology of the state and other topics.

Ruth Gaevernitz was a long-time friend and collaborator of Betty Heimann. She co-edited Facets of Indian Thought, a collection of essays by Betty Heimann which was published posthumously in 1964.

Yumjao Singh was in charge of the state printing press of Manipur. In the early 1930s, he worked as an assistant of William Pettigrew conducting research on archaic Manipuri.

Herbert Niel Randle C.I.E. F.B.A. (1880–1973) was the librarian of the India Office Library (1933–49; assistant librarian 1927–33), professor of philosophy at Queen's College, Benares, and a writer on Indian philosophy.

Stuart N. Wolfenden was a linguist and scholar in Tibeto-Burman dialects. He joined the Royal Asiatic Society in 1928 and his book Outlines of Tibeto-Burman Linguistic Morphology was published by the Society in the Prize Publication Fund Series in 1929.