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How have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or 'Untouchables'? This book explores a range of issues across history. It talks about the creation of the concept of the Mussalman through the work of Hindi writers and publicists in the late nineteenth century.
List of contents
* Representing the Mussalman: Then and Now, Now and Then, Shahid Amin, University of Delhi* Refiguring the Fanatic: Malabar 1836-1922, M. T. Ansari, University of Hyderabad* A Practice of Prejudice: Gandhi's Politics of Friendship, Faisal Fatehali Devji, Yale University* The Anomaly of Kabir: Caste and Canonicity in Indian Modernity, Milind Wakankar, State University of New York* Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition, Anupama Rao, Columbia University* Framing Custom, Directing Practices: Authority, Property and Matriliny under Colonial Law in Nineteenth-century Malabar, Praveena Kodoth, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum* A Poetics of Resistance: Investigating the Rhetoric of the Bardic Historians of Rajasthan, Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, independent scholar, Renu Dube, Boise State University and Reena Dube, Indiana University* The Work of Imagination: Temporality and Nationhood in Colonial Bengal, Prathama Banerjee, Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi
About the author
Shail Mayaram is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and author of Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins and Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity. M.S.S. Pandian's publications include Image Trap: M.G. Ramachandran in Films and Politics. Ajay Skaria teaches history at the University of Minneapolis and is author of Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India.
Summary
How have the dominant histories of the Indian subcontinent been constructed and how do they deal with the subject of Muslims and Dalits or 'Untouchables'? This book explores a range of issues across history. It talks about the creation of the concept of the Mussalman through the work of Hindi writers and publicists in the late nineteenth century.
