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Conquest and Community tells the story of the Indo-Turkic warrior saint Ghazi Miyan and his influential cult in the Gangetic plains. A purported nephew of Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghazi Miyan was supposedly martyred in holy war against Hindu kings near Bahraich in modern-day Uttar Pradesh in 1034 CE. Conspicuously absent from contemporary Persian chronicles about his famous uncle, he is, nevertheless, the subject of glowing hagiographies from the seventeenth century ...
Ranajit Guha’s opening essay meticulously constructs new pathways in recovering the subalterns of history. Ajay Skaria documents the ambivalent relationship of a forest people with colonial masters. Shail Mayaram takes a disturbingly close look at the nature and memory of genocidal Partition violence directed against the Meos. Kamala Visweswaran deconstructs the category ‘woman’ as deployed in nationalist discourse. Gyan Prakash analyses the ways in which ...
During the late-nineteenth century British officials, often doubling as scholar-collectors, created a huge and variegated 'colonial archive', collecting, arranging and recasting information about 'The Natives of India' into compendia for ready reference and administrative recall. Taking these neglected official materials on peasant and rural life, the distinguished historian Shahid Amin has fashioned a new synthesis, one that interrogates the colonial ...
