Pepita Seth was born in Suffolk in 1942. She studied film editing and gained opportunities to work under film directors like Ted Kotcheff and Stanley Donen. On finding the diary of her grandfather, she decided to trace his life with the British Army in India. She landed in Kolkata in 1970. She travelled from Kolkata to Guruvayur where she became fascinated by the temple arts and rituals of Kerala. For the next nine years, she visited Kerala several times and, in 1979, she settled in Guruvayur. Eventually the Guruvayur Devaswom Board allowed her access to the temple. She has published many books and articles on the temple arts and rituals. In recognition of her services to the fields of art and culture, the Government of India, in 2012, bestowed on her the civilian award of Padma Shri.
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Peter Alford Andrews was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset in 1936. He trained as an architect before undertaking his PhD study at the Department of the Near and Middle East, Faculty of Arts, SOAS, University of London, under Mary Boyce (also a Richard Burton Medal winner RAS BMM/14) researching The Felt tent in Middle Asia: The Nomadic Tradition and its Interpenetration with Princely Tentage. Since his initial research Peter Andrews has continued to undertake further research on nomadic tents while continuing to lecture and hold academic research posts.
He was married to Mügül (Ataç) Andrews from 1967 until her death in 2016.