The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms

This volume examines the tension between the “nation” idea as a necessary language of legitimacy with which to claim liberation, and its role in disciplinin

A common thread throughout the essays in this volume is a focus on new loci of power that emerge either in collision with colonial power structures, or in colla

The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious, logical