Stitches on Time
Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles
1st Edition
Published on 25. March 2004
280 pages
978-0-8223-8548-6 (ISBN)
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A critical analysis of histories and anthropologies of South Asia, seen in relation to the subaltern studies project, and several examples of how colonial history might be done differently.
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Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community.
Content
Abbreviations ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Colonial Textures
1 Traveling Light 31
2 Evangelical Entanglements 52
3 Telling Tales 76
4 Entitlements and Enmities 103
Postcolonial Tangles
5 Subaltern Subjects
129
6 Pilgrims' Progress 164
7 The Enchanted and the Modern 177
Afterword 187
Notes
191
Glossary 231
Bibliography 233
Index 255
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Colonial Textures
1 Traveling Light 31
2 Evangelical Entanglements 52
3 Telling Tales 76
4 Entitlements and Enmities 103
Postcolonial Tangles
5 Subaltern Subjects
129
6 Pilgrims' Progress 164
7 The Enchanted and the Modern 177
Afterword 187
Notes
191
Glossary 231
Bibliography 233
Index 255
