Shail Mayaram
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Resisting Regimes examines how colonial and princely regimes and the Tablighi Jama’at have been perceived, responded to and resisted by a subject group called the Meos, a community largely based in India and Pakistan. Meo myth and memory counter the statist enunciation of truth and history and denial of identity. The group located historically between Hinduism and Islam also challenges the theoretical terrain based on the binary categories, ...
A study and postmodern critique of Mahasweta Devi’s major fictional writings on tribals, The Subaltern Speaks addresses some primary concerns of Subaltern Studies historians and explores the representation of tribal people as ‘subaltern’.
Adivasis today are caught between an aggressive and seemingly benevolent version of capitalism, although the lines between the two have increasingly blurred. British India created formal property rights to ...
In the course of her stay in Israel as a visiting professor, Shail Mayaram wrote a series of letters to friends and family: letters that not only document her experiences of living, teaching and traveling in Israel and Palestinian territories, but also record her reflections on the complexities of identities and nationalism. Mostly as an outsider, and sometimes as a witness, the author offers her perspective on the historical and contemporary realities of the ...
This book discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might take forward the work of the two persons who were among the most brilliant minds of our times.
Both Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi emphasized freedom and autonomy of thought and upheld the importance of samvada, somewhat inadequate in its English translation as dialogue. And both of them were philosophers concerned with how ...
The destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December 1992 is a watershed in the politics of independent India. This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction. It argues that the chain of events they describe is the end-product of a century's efforts to convert Hindus into a 'proper' modern nation and a conventional ethnic majority. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the culture of ...
The Twelfth volume of Subaltern Studies comprises essays broadly linked by an interest in the history of Muslims and Dalits in South Asia, or with the manner in which dominant histories in the subcontinent have been 'fabricated'.
This pioneering study explores the Meo community through their oral tradition, revealing sophisticated modes of collective memory and self-governance. It reveals the remarkable complexity and resilience of a transgressive culture that has survived on the margins of Hinduism and Islam. Reassessing conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective, Against History, Against State examines how conceptions of history and memory clash. For nearly a ...
The twelfth volume of Subaltern Studies comprises essays broadly linked by an interest in the history of Muslims and Dalits in South Asia, or with the manner in which dominant histories in the subcontinent have been 'fabricated'.