Subaltern Studies XII: Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History

Contents: Preface. 1. Representing the Musalman: then and now, now and then/Shahid Amin. 2. Refiguring the fanatic: Malabar 1836-1922/M.T. Ansari. 3. A practice of prejudice: Gandhi's politics of friendship/Faisal Fatehali Devji. 4. The Anomaly of Kabir: caste and canonicity in Indian modernity/Milind Wakankar. 5. Death of a Kotwal: injury and the politics of recognition/Anupama Rao. 6. Framing custom, directing practices: authority, property and matriliny under Colonial Law in Nineteenth-Century Malabar/Praveena Kodoth. 7. A poetics of resistance: investigating the rhetoric of the Bardic Historians of Rajasthan/Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube and Reena Dube. 8. The work of imagination: temporality and nationhood in Colonial Bengal/Prathama Banerjee.