The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History

1. Introduction: Subalterns and Histories
Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee

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2. Subaltern Photography
David Arnold

3. Some Ironies and Anomalies in the History of Subaltern Studies
Dipesh Chakrabarty

4. Adivasi Indigeneity: Reframing Subaltern Studies Today
Ajay Skaria

5. “But Who May Abide?”: Reckoning with Ranajit Guha, 1923-2023
Saurabh Dube

6. The Language Twist: Subaltern Studies and After
Prathama Banerjee

7. Subaltern, to the Right and to the Left of the Spectrum
Ileana Rodríguez

8. The Subaltern as a Way of Reading: History Writing and the Colonial Oblivion in Latin America
Mario Rufer

9. Notes on Subalternity and Combative Decoloniality: In Dialogue with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Frantz Fanon
Nelson Maldonado-Torres

10. Subaltern Historiography and Post-Apartheid South Africa
Premesh Lalu

11. “Peeping Through a Chink”: Age, Evidence, and the Sexual Subaltern
Ishita Pande

12. Science and the Subaltern: A Hairy-Eared History of Nehruvian Science
Projit Bihari Mukharji

13. Stretching Subalternity: The Figure of “The Migrant” in the Postcolonial World Order
Nandita Sharma

14. Property and Subaltern Pasts
Mareike Winchell

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15. Sovereignty, Anti-Extraction, and the Prose of Insurgency in Mexico
Carlos Arroyo

16. Resurgent Indigeneity and Discourses on History in Settler States
Miranda Johnson

17. Subalterns in India’s Wildlife Conservation
Ambika Aiyadurai

18. Captive Transactions: Measures of Violence in the Northeastern Frontier of British India (1872-1919)
Anandaroop Sen

19. Ghosts of the Atlantic in South Asian Historiography
Indrani Chatterjee

20. “Ameliorating” the Enslaved: Connected Histories of the Abolition of Slavery
Nira Wickramasinghe

21. Can the Subaltern Sweat?
Bharat Jayram Venkat

22. Intimations of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History
Anjali Arondekar

23. Degrees of Smell: Understanding and Resisting Caste
Shivani Kapoor

24. When the Subaltern Speaks Supremacy
Karthick Ram Manoharan

25. Sex, Caste, and Race: Iterations of the “Social Question” in Ambedkar’s Castes in India
Anupama Rao

26. Dalit Womanism-Humanism: Against Caste and Gender Hierarchies
Shailaja Paik

27. Amid the Ruins: Savitribai Phule’s Poetry as Subaltern History
Christian Lee Novetzke

28. Anti-Caste Tamil Cinema Against the Darshanic Gaze
Priya Jaikumar and Darshana Sreedhar Mini

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29. Muslim Labourers and Subaltern Religion: Assertions of Faith and Community in Colonial India
Amanda Lanzillo

30. Catholic Workers and the Mexican Revolution
Robert Curley

31. Labouring Lives and Non-Work Moments: Rethinking Histories of Labour, Caste, and the Subaltern
Arun Kumar

32. Protean Justice: The Law, the Lawgiver, and the Subaltern Antinomies of Mughal and British India
Sudipta Sen

33. Police Constables in Colonial India: From Subaltern Studies to Labour and Life History
Partha Pratim Shil

34. Elites, Subjects, Citizens: Shifting Statuses of Zoroastrians
Jamsheed K. Choksy

35. The Journey of a Word: Media as Name, Concept, Weapon
Arvind Rajagopal

36. Productions of Injustice: Extra-Legal Credit in Northern India
Sebastian Schwecke

37. Performance, “Tradition”, Contestation: The Case of Bhojpuri Nautanki of Bihar
Rajat Kanti Sur

38. Bharatnatyam, Sacred-Eroticism, and Liminality
Navtej Johar

39. Race, Gender, Reproduction: Malinalli/Marina and Multiple Mestizaje
Ishita Banerjee

40. When and Where Do They Enter?: Black Women’s Travel Narratives and the Question of Agency
Michelle M. Wright

41. Afterword: The New International
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Biography

Saurabh Dube is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, El Colegio de México; National Researcher, Distinguished Category, SNII (National System of Researchers), Mexico; and Distinguished Research Fellow, Max Weber Stiftung (Germany-India). Apart from around 140 essays and book chapters, his authored books include Untouchable Pasts, Stitches on Time, After Conversion, Subjects of Modernity and Disciplines of Modernity, as well as a sextet in historical anthropology in the Spanish language. A 600-page anthology/omnibus of Dube’s Spanish writings was published in 2019. Among his twenty edited volumes are Postcolonial Passages, Historical Anthropology, Enchantments of Modernity, Crime through Time, Unbecoming Modern and Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South. Dube also edits the innovative series, “Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects.” He has been Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, the Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa, the Max Weber Kolleg, Germany and the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna. Dube has also held visiting professorships, several times, at institutions such Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and Goa University (where he occupied the DD Kosambi Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies).

Ishita Banerjee is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, National Researcher, Distinguished Category, SNII (National System of Researchers), Mexico and Distinguished Research Fellow, Max Weber Stiftung (Germany-India). Her six authored books include A History of Modern India (2015), Religion, Law, and Power (2007) and Divine Affairs (2001). Among her dozen edited volumes are Cooking Cultures (2016), On Modern Indian Sensibilities (2018) and Caste in History (2008). Banerjee has published articles in a wide range of journals in the English and Spanish languages and edited the book-series “Hinduism.” She has been Fellow of the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. Banerjee has held visiting professorships at the Simon Bolivar Andean University, Quito, Syracuse University and Goa University (where she occupied the DD Kosambi Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies).