Saurabh Dube
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In Subjects of Modernity, Saurabh Dube thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, he investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, Dube understands the antinomies of modernity not as analytical errors, but as constitutive elements of modern ...
Destined to become a key work of Subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the post colonial, and power and difference. Saurabh Dube combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Drawing on extensive archival research ...
The past two decades have seen major departures in the writing of cultural history and historical anthropology of India. Today, such scholarship constitutes an integral part of transnational debates across disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. Postcolonial Passages brings into mutual dialogue landmark writings on empire and modernity, state and nation, and colonial questions and postcolonial problems. The contributors to the volume are widely ...
Unbecoming Modern : Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities explores the vital impact of the colonial pasts of India, Mexico, China, and even the United States on the processes through which these countries have become modern. The collection is unique as it brings together a range of disciplines and perspectives. The topics discussed include the Zapatista Movement in Southern Mexico, the image of the South in recent African-American literature, the theories ...
The Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology comprises a set of volumes, each on an important theme or sub-area within these disciplines. Along with authoritative introductions and sectional prefaces, each book brings together key essays that apprise readers of the current debates and developments within the area concerned, with specific reference to India. The volumes act both as introductions to sociology and social anthropology and as ...
Religion, power and community are major issues in twenty-first century India. Ancient to Modern analyses these intertwined issues from varied perspectives across different regions of India. It reflects on recent historiography and opens up spaces for dialogue and debate. The essays explore different aspects of religion in the context of identity formation and articulation of power. From discussions of heretical and ascetic practices in the ancient and medieval ...