Postcolonial Passages Contemporary History-writing on India

by Dube, Saurabh

• ISBN13: 9780195665086
• ISBN10: 0195665082
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Postcolonial Passages brings into dialogue salient writings on the cultural history and the historical anthropology of the Indian subcontinent. In this book, the postcolonial is used as a critical perspective. Taken together, the work carefully questions and incisively elaborates colonialism, empire and community, state and nation, and modernity and its margins, also probing the postcolonial as a category.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction Terms that Bind: Colony, Nation, Modernity	1	(37)
Saurabh Dube
I. COLONY AND EMPIRE
Not at Home in Empire	38	(9)
Ranajit Guha
Representing Authority in Victorian India	47	(23)
Bernard S. Cohn
The Ethnographic State	70	(19)
Nicholas B. Dirks
Problems of Violence, States of Terror: Torture in Colonial India	89	(17)
Anupama Rao
Tragedy, Irony, and Modernity	106	(9)
Sudipta Kaviraj
II. NATION AND COMMUNITY
Communities and the Nation	115	(17)
Partha Chatterjee
They Also Followed Gandhi	132	(27)
Shahid Amin
Disciplining Difference	159	(18)
Gyanendra Pandey
Belonging	177	(19)
Ritu Menon
Kamla Bhasin
III. MARGINS OF MODERNITY
Entangled Endeavours	196	(16)
Saurabh Dube
Reproducing Inequality: Spirit Cults and Labour Relations in Colonial Eastern India	212	(17)
Gyan Prakash
Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts	229	(14)
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Blood	243	(11)
Urvashi Butalia
Afterword Presence of Europe: A Cyber Conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty	254	(9)
Saurabh Dube
Notes on Contributors	263	(2)
Index	265