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This talk critically discusses questions of the colonial, the decolonial, and the postcolonial. I... more This talk critically discusses questions of the colonial, the decolonial, and the postcolonial. It was delivered live on 24 May 2021 -- on Zoom and streamed on YouTube and Facebook -- at the Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Representations of the National University of Mexico (UNAM).

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Papers by Saurabh Dube

*Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History*, eds. Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee, 2025

Gazing at the stars, this book was born a bit over four decades ago. That was when we, its editor... more Gazing at the stars, this book was born a bit over four decades ago. That was when we, its editors, encountered Subaltern Studies. This book is a result of that encounter and the entanglements that followed, and the Preface in front sets the tone.

Desentrañar la Política, 2023

introducción del libro

*Historia y Grafia, 2024

Este ensayo aborda consideraciones críticas sobre el historicismo en relación a otras disciplinas... more Este ensayo aborda consideraciones críticas sobre el historicismo en relación a otras disciplinas de la modernidad. En principio, este ejercicio se enmarca un diálogo estrecho y profundo a lo largo de más de tres décadas con la obra de Dipesh Chakrabarty, quien ha planteado cuestiones clave en torno al historicismo en su influyente publicación *Provincializing Europe*.

Esta tarea me permite desplegar mucho más mis alas. Por un lado, tamizo algunas de las propuestas de Chakrabarty más allá de sus premisas centrales. Por otro lado, me baso en las sensibilidades más amplias de dicho enfoque a fin de ofrecer mi interpretación particular de la historia y la antropología como disciplinas contendientes y contradictorias propias de la modernidad.

En este sentido, este trabajo se inspira implícitamente en algunos de los argumentos de Dipesh pero también traza sus propios caminos. De hecho, considero innecesario presentar un inventario de mis conjunciones y disyunciones con la obra de Dipesh, especialmente en lo que respecta a las disciplinas, temas y sujetos de la modernidad. Antes bien, traigo a colación el modo en que cierto espíritu de intercambio intelectual con Chakrabarty resuena en mi articulación de problemáticas e investigaciones de amplio espectro. Estas cuestiones giran en torno a una variedad de saberes interseccionales que se extienden a las ciencias sociales y las humanidades críticas, abarcando también, de manera crucial, la filosofía política y la teoría social.

Mi trabajo consta de seis pasos. Para empezar, haré un breve resumen de la obra de Dipesh. En segundo lugar, analizaré cómo los postulados de Chakrabarty pueden ser leídos en tanto apuntan hacia la poscolonialidad y la modernidad como procedimientos y perspectivas necesariamente contradictorias, contendientes y contingentes. En tercer lugar, el ensayo explora los caminos que PE sugiere de forma vacilante e ilumina parcialmente, pero que se abstiene de recorrer por completo. En cuarto lugar, esto me permite ampliar los diferentes registros del historicismo, la hermenéutica y la analítica, incluyendo su interacción mutua y sus formidables entrelazamientos como elementos formativos de los saberes modernos. En quinto lugar, desarrollo estas problemáticas mediante el análisis crítico y detallado de un importante ensayo de Chakrabarty sobre cuestiones relacionadas a la modernidad y la diferencia. Por último, todos estos pasos contribuyen a presentar mis propias exploraciones sobre la modernidad, que responden implícitamente a mi extensa relación con el trabajo académico de Dipesh, pero que necesariamente también exceden a los postulados de Chakrabarty. Aquí, entrelazando teoría y narrativa, antropología e historia, me centro en las ciencias humanas modernas institucionalizadas no nomotéticas, especialmente la antropología y la historia. Estas formaciones de conocimiento no implican solamente disciplinas modernas, sino que se trata de disciplinas de la modernidad. Estas disciplinas contradictorias y contrarias se fundan en la interacción entre la Ilustración y la Contrailustración, el progresivismo y el romanticismo, lo analítico y lo hermenéutico, y el imperio y la nación.

De manera integral, este ensayo se entiende en un espíritu de gratitud crítica, mostrando cómo en el diálogo intelectual se puede aprender críticamente y, al mismo tiempo, desaprender constructivamente en base a un corpus fundamental y sus temas principales (en este caso, en relación a la obra de Dipesh Chakrabarty). En un sentido más amplio, se propone hacer un análisis profundo de argumentos y enfoques, tarea que no se limita a dicho ejercicio en sí mismo, sino que lleva a plantear distintas preguntas y desentrañar otros posibles sentidos.

*Oxford Bibliographies: Literary and Cultural Studies*, 2023

Dipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is widely recognized as a cultural historian and postcolonial theori... more Dipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is widely recognized as a cultural historian and postcolonial theorist of immense acuity and formidable imagination. Known especially for his critical coinage of “provincializing Europe” and cross-disciplinary considerations of the Anthropocene, Chakrabarty has variously contributed to the rethinking of subaltern historiography and working-class culture, modernity and history, and climate change and planetary subjects. This article provides and exhaustive, thematic bibliographical account-survey of works by Dipesh Chakrabarty and writings on him.

Revised Flyer of *Disciplines of Modernity* with editorial reviews, contents, and brief descripti... more Revised Flyer of *Disciplines of Modernity* with editorial reviews, contents, and brief description of book.

IWM Post, 2022

In recent years, abiding urgencies of calls to decolonize have been accompanied by unproductive a... more In recent years, abiding urgencies of calls to decolonize have been accompanied by unproductive ambiguities surrounding the decolonial. How are we to understand such contrariety? Can the terms and textures of decolonize/decolonization and decolonial/decoloniality be rendered as critical optics and prudent provocations unto knowledge and politics in the present?

This essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better u... more This essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better understand the changing terms, tactics, and textures of disciplinary authority, social control, and their several subversions in South Asia—from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Here, focusing on the pre-colonial and colonial periods, we seize upon crime as a point of entry not only to unravel the dynamic between states and subjects but to understand as well the ways in which intimate social lives have been shaped by these encounters. We argue that crime is at once a category produced by legal regimes and governmental registers as well as a practice intimating the intersections of social experience and state power. At stake, then, are multiple articulations between authoritative categories, formations of state authority, and structures of everyday life. These articulations themselves suggest that far from constituting a settled fact, questions of crime are better approached a...

Estudios de Asia y África, 2017

Estudios de Asia y África, 2015

Este ensayo y su antecedente exploran la relación que existe entre crimen y cultura, con el fin d... more Este ensayo y su antecedente exploran la relación que existe entre crimen y cultura, con el fin de comprender mejor las cambiantes condiciones, las tácticas y las texturas del poder disciplinario, el control social y sus varias subversiones en el Sur de Asia, desde el siglo XVIII hasta el XXI. En este sentido, centrándonos en los periodos precolonial y colonial, vemos en el crimen un punto de acceso no sólo al desciframiento de la dinámica entre los Estados y los sujetos, sino también al entendimiento de las formas en que las vidas sociales íntimas han sido modeladas por estos encuentros. Sostenemos que el delito es a la vez una categoría producida por regímenes jurídicos y registros gubernamentales, como una práctica que insinúa las intersecciones de la experiencia social y el poder del Estado. Están en juego, entonces, múltiples articulaciones entre categorías autorizadas, formaciones de autoridad del Estado y estructuras de la vida cotidiana. Estas articulaciones por sí mismas su...

Estudios de Asia y África, 2016

El presente ensayo considera la aldea en India como un concepto y una entidad a la vez. Por un la... more El presente ensayo considera la aldea en India como un concepto y una entidad a la vez. Por un lado, los múltiples mapeos y las agudas ambivalencias que rodean a la aldea, a los que doy seguimiento, reflejan el pasado y el presente de la antropología y la sociología de India, incluidos los vínculos disciplinarios con el Estado y la nación. Por el otro, las articulaciones definidas y las expresiones discretas de las aldeas de la región de Chhattisgarh, en la India central, actúan como una suerte de prisma que refleja y refracta los diseños y los detalles del imperio y la modernidad, del proyecto misionero y un cristianismo vernáculo, del derecho (y el orden) oficial y las legalidades (e ilegalidades) cotidianas. En su conjunto, este ensayo aborda las aldeas como interpretadas y habitadas a través de convenciones de significado y práctica de mundos académicos y sociales, mundos que se unen y se separan. En este sentido, la aldea insinúa más que un objeto de entendimiento, una condició...

*Outlook Magazine*, 2017

Stellenbosch is a beautiful town, held as though in a glass bubble. It is caught in an uncanny wa... more Stellenbosch is a beautiful town, held as though in a glass bubble. It is caught in an uncanny warp of snarled space and twisted time, which turn upon each other. Stellenbosch is set amidst the hills of the Cape Winelands, a mere 50 kilometres or so from the haunting (and haunted) Cape Town. The stunningly gorgeous region, which produces some of the finest wines of the world, is home to slavery, indenture, apartheid, and after. An account of how my *Subjects of Modernity* got written.

*Disciplines of Modernity*, 2022

This is an Introduction to *Disciplines of Modernity*, a book that is under contract, presently ... more This is an Introduction to *Disciplines of Modernity*, a book that is under contract, presently with reviewers., Here, I rethink institutionalized formations of anthropology and history – together with modern archives – as themselves intimating disciplines of modernity. To offer this claim is untangle both these enquiries as severally shaped by the Ur-opposition between the “primitive/native” and the “civilized/modern.” To be found genealogically the looming impress of empire and nation, race and reason, and their incessant interplay. At the same time, at stake are analytical and hermeneutical orientations, romanticist and progressivist dispositions, and their formidable entanglements. Understood in their widest senses of the term, these disciplines are constitutively contradictory. This is true also of archives, including/especially in considerations – as in this book – of anthropological and historical knowledges, varieties of social theory, and the repositories of research we ourselves make and uncertainly inhabit as all intimating archival formations.

David Lindenfeld y Miles Richardson (eds.) Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 (Nueva York: Berghahn Books, 2011)., 2011

This chapter explores the interplay of conversion, translation, and life-history in colonial cent... more This chapter explores the interplay of conversion, translation, and life-history in colonial central India, especially in the first half of the twentieth century.

*Historia y grafia*, 2021

(The Spanish text of this paper was published in *Historia y grafia*. The English version -- this... more (The Spanish text of this paper was published in *Historia y grafia*. The English version -- this one -- was also published in the online version of the journal. Here it is now, since various folks had expressed interest in reading it.)

This essay explores issues of worldly immanence and secular transcendence by focusing on modern scholasticism. Such scholasticisms intimate pervasive procedures that turn their particular case into the general story while forgetting the conditions that make this possible. It is exactly such spectacular conjuring that the essay refers to as secular transcendence: implicit assumptions of immaculate knowledge that occlude and ignore the traces and tracks of its maculate birth in the world. Against this is contrasted the presence of worldly immanence, which militates against routine assumptions of the disenchantment of-and detachment toward-the world. Seizing upon such worldly immanence, the essay critically explores how modern scholasticism and secular transcendence formidably beget and betoken the cultural privilege of academic arenas, embodied at once in the latter's conceptual conventions as well as their everyday life-worlds.

*Historia y grafia*, 2021

This essay explores issues of worldly immanence and secular transcendence by focusing on modern s... more This essay explores issues of worldly immanence and secular transcendence by focusing on modern scholasticism. Such scholasticisms intimate pervasive procedures that turn their particular case into the general story while forgetting the conditions that make this possible. It is exactly such spectacular conjuring that the essay refers to as secular transcendence: implicit assumptions of immaculate knowledge that occlude and ignore the traces and tracks of its maculate birth in the world. Against this is contrasted the presence of worldly immanence, which militates against routine assumptions of the disenchantment of-and detachment toward-the world. Seizing upon such worldly immanence, the essay critically explores how modern scholasticism and secular transcendence formidably beget and betoken the cultural privilege of academic arenas, embodied at once in the latter's conceptual conventions as well as their everyday life-worlds.

Cuicuilco: Revista de Ciencia Antropológicas, 2021

This essay is part of a broader anthropological history of elites and privilege, as linked to cap... more This essay is part of a broader anthropological history of elites and privilege, as linked to capital and class, gender and difference, in neoliberal and nationalist, plutocratic and populist times. The project began as the ethnography and history of a specific high school generation, “the class of 1979,” at the ‘Modern School,’ a co-ed institution that embodies the elite status in the heart of New Delhi. Since then, this study has expanded to include varied encounters with agents of power, from fund managers and their capitalist clientele, to bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and academics. Considering the various ways of investigating the elites and their worlds, the study’s exploratory effort focuses on representations of privilege, displays of memory, proclamations of entitlement, economies of affect and the uses of capital, along with their present genealogies. In the context of the transition from postcolonial development to neoliberal capitalism, during the final quarter of the 20th Century, a critical account is offered that intertwines ethnographic accounts, analytical emphases and anecdotal theory. This is also reflected in the style and structure of this essay, which weaves together sociological snapshots, everyday stories, anthropological vignettes, and theoretical textures.

*Práticas da História : Journal on Theory, Historiography, and Uses of the Past*, 2020

Focusing particularly on *Provincializing Europe* (PE), this essay is cast as a close and critica... more Focusing particularly on *Provincializing Europe* (PE), this essay is cast as a close and critical engagement with the work of Dipesh Chakrabarty over almost three decades. To begin with, I trace how Chakrabarty’s provocations have pointed toward post-coloniality and modernity as necessarily contradictory, contended, and contingent procedures and perspectives. Second, the essay tracks pathways that PE haltingly intimates and partially illuminate but mostly routes that the work chiefly shies of treading, in order to open up instead the different registers of historicism, the hermeneutical, and the analytical, including their mutual interplay and formidable entanglements, as formative of modern knowledges. Finally, these steps help foreground my own explorations of modernity. Braiding together analytical impulses and hermeneutic sensibilities, theory and narrative, these efforts have distinguished between historically located subjects of modernity as bearers of heterogeneous reasons/understandings, on the one hand, and routine representations of the modern subject as insinuating a singular rationality, on the other, which together carry wide implications.

*Foreign Affairs en Espanyol*, Vol 7, No. 1, 2007

¿Cuál es la relación entre la modernidad e India? ¿Es algo nuevo la modernidad para India, lo que... more ¿Cuál es la relación entre la modernidad e India? ¿Es algo nuevo la modernidad para India, lo que significaría la transformación, tan sólo en las décadas recientes, de una so-ciedad aparentemente eterna mediante re-des globales de banca e industria, migración e información, y comercio y tecnología? ¿O los diferentes grupos del subcontinente in-dio han participado en grados diversos en los procesos de modernidad durante un periodo mucho más largo? En una palabra, ¿cómo ha de entenderse la modernidad misma? y ¿qué formas han adoptado sus expresiones y discusiones en India? Este ensayo aborda estas cuestiones, y para ello reconocemos la necesidad de con-siderar a la vez ideas dominantes de la mo-dernidad y las imágenes de India que aqué-llas comportan. Ahora, los propios términos de modernidad y de lo moderno, amplia-mente utilizados en los mundos actuales ya desde hace mucho tiempo, descansan tanto en presuposiciones implícitas de lo que esas nociones significan como en imágenes explícitas de los mundos que denotan. Se-gún la comprensión del vulgo y la académi-ca, el estadio de ser moderno y la etapa de entrar en la modernidad suelen aparecer como una superación de la tradición, como una ruptura con lo que existía antes. Ello trae consigo poderosas imágenes opuestas de lo tradicional versus lo moderno: en las formas arquitectónicas, las chozas de adobe versus los rascacielos; en las artes escénicas, los ritmos folclóricos versus las extravagan-cias electrónicas, y, en general, costumbres que nunca cambian versus tecnologías que ya transforman. Todo esto podría ser reconocido fácilmen-te, pero a menudo se pasa por alto cómo tales presuposiciones regulares y presentes y las visiones rivales y viscerales tienen pro-fundos atributos mundanos. Sin embargo, basta con una rápida mirada al mundo actual para ver que continuamente definen las percepciones cotidianas y las prácticas

This talk critically discusses questions of the colonial, the decolonial, and the postcolonial. I... more This talk critically discusses questions of the colonial, the decolonial, and the postcolonial. It was delivered live on 24 May 2021 -- on Zoom and streamed on YouTube and Facebook -- at the Centre for Research in Social and Cultural Representations of the National University of Mexico (UNAM).

47 views

*Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History*, eds. Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee, 2025

Gazing at the stars, this book was born a bit over four decades ago. That was when we, its editor... more Gazing at the stars, this book was born a bit over four decades ago. That was when we, its editors, encountered Subaltern Studies. This book is a result of that encounter and the entanglements that followed, and the Preface in front sets the tone.

Desentrañar la Política, 2023

introducción del libro

*Historia y Grafia, 2024

Este ensayo aborda consideraciones críticas sobre el historicismo en relación a otras disciplinas... more Este ensayo aborda consideraciones críticas sobre el historicismo en relación a otras disciplinas de la modernidad. En principio, este ejercicio se enmarca un diálogo estrecho y profundo a lo largo de más de tres décadas con la obra de Dipesh Chakrabarty, quien ha planteado cuestiones clave en torno al historicismo en su influyente publicación *Provincializing Europe*.

Esta tarea me permite desplegar mucho más mis alas. Por un lado, tamizo algunas de las propuestas de Chakrabarty más allá de sus premisas centrales. Por otro lado, me baso en las sensibilidades más amplias de dicho enfoque a fin de ofrecer mi interpretación particular de la historia y la antropología como disciplinas contendientes y contradictorias propias de la modernidad.

En este sentido, este trabajo se inspira implícitamente en algunos de los argumentos de Dipesh pero también traza sus propios caminos. De hecho, considero innecesario presentar un inventario de mis conjunciones y disyunciones con la obra de Dipesh, especialmente en lo que respecta a las disciplinas, temas y sujetos de la modernidad. Antes bien, traigo a colación el modo en que cierto espíritu de intercambio intelectual con Chakrabarty resuena en mi articulación de problemáticas e investigaciones de amplio espectro. Estas cuestiones giran en torno a una variedad de saberes interseccionales que se extienden a las ciencias sociales y las humanidades críticas, abarcando también, de manera crucial, la filosofía política y la teoría social.

Mi trabajo consta de seis pasos. Para empezar, haré un breve resumen de la obra de Dipesh. En segundo lugar, analizaré cómo los postulados de Chakrabarty pueden ser leídos en tanto apuntan hacia la poscolonialidad y la modernidad como procedimientos y perspectivas necesariamente contradictorias, contendientes y contingentes. En tercer lugar, el ensayo explora los caminos que PE sugiere de forma vacilante e ilumina parcialmente, pero que se abstiene de recorrer por completo. En cuarto lugar, esto me permite ampliar los diferentes registros del historicismo, la hermenéutica y la analítica, incluyendo su interacción mutua y sus formidables entrelazamientos como elementos formativos de los saberes modernos. En quinto lugar, desarrollo estas problemáticas mediante el análisis crítico y detallado de un importante ensayo de Chakrabarty sobre cuestiones relacionadas a la modernidad y la diferencia. Por último, todos estos pasos contribuyen a presentar mis propias exploraciones sobre la modernidad, que responden implícitamente a mi extensa relación con el trabajo académico de Dipesh, pero que necesariamente también exceden a los postulados de Chakrabarty. Aquí, entrelazando teoría y narrativa, antropología e historia, me centro en las ciencias humanas modernas institucionalizadas no nomotéticas, especialmente la antropología y la historia. Estas formaciones de conocimiento no implican solamente disciplinas modernas, sino que se trata de disciplinas de la modernidad. Estas disciplinas contradictorias y contrarias se fundan en la interacción entre la Ilustración y la Contrailustración, el progresivismo y el romanticismo, lo analítico y lo hermenéutico, y el imperio y la nación.

De manera integral, este ensayo se entiende en un espíritu de gratitud crítica, mostrando cómo en el diálogo intelectual se puede aprender críticamente y, al mismo tiempo, desaprender constructivamente en base a un corpus fundamental y sus temas principales (en este caso, en relación a la obra de Dipesh Chakrabarty). En un sentido más amplio, se propone hacer un análisis profundo de argumentos y enfoques, tarea que no se limita a dicho ejercicio en sí mismo, sino que lleva a plantear distintas preguntas y desentrañar otros posibles sentidos.

*Oxford Bibliographies: Literary and Cultural Studies*, 2023

Dipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is widely recognized as a cultural historian and postcolonial theori... more Dipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is widely recognized as a cultural historian and postcolonial theorist of immense acuity and formidable imagination. Known especially for his critical coinage of “provincializing Europe” and cross-disciplinary considerations of the Anthropocene, Chakrabarty has variously contributed to the rethinking of subaltern historiography and working-class culture, modernity and history, and climate change and planetary subjects. This article provides and exhaustive, thematic bibliographical account-survey of works by Dipesh Chakrabarty and writings on him.

Revised Flyer of *Disciplines of Modernity* with editorial reviews, contents, and brief descripti... more Revised Flyer of *Disciplines of Modernity* with editorial reviews, contents, and brief description of book.

IWM Post, 2022

In recent years, abiding urgencies of calls to decolonize have been accompanied by unproductive a... more In recent years, abiding urgencies of calls to decolonize have been accompanied by unproductive ambiguities surrounding the decolonial. How are we to understand such contrariety? Can the terms and textures of decolonize/decolonization and decolonial/decoloniality be rendered as critical optics and prudent provocations unto knowledge and politics in the present?

This essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better u... more This essay and its sequel explore the relationship between crime and culture in order to better understand the changing terms, tactics, and textures of disciplinary authority, social control, and their several subversions in South Asia—from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Here, focusing on the pre-colonial and colonial periods, we seize upon crime as a point of entry not only to unravel the dynamic between states and subjects but to understand as well the ways in which intimate social lives have been shaped by these encounters. We argue that crime is at once a category produced by legal regimes and governmental registers as well as a practice intimating the intersections of social experience and state power. At stake, then, are multiple articulations between authoritative categories, formations of state authority, and structures of everyday life. These articulations themselves suggest that far from constituting a settled fact, questions of crime are better approached a...

Estudios de Asia y África, 2017

Estudios de Asia y África, 2015

Este ensayo y su antecedente exploran la relación que existe entre crimen y cultura, con el fin d... more Este ensayo y su antecedente exploran la relación que existe entre crimen y cultura, con el fin de comprender mejor las cambiantes condiciones, las tácticas y las texturas del poder disciplinario, el control social y sus varias subversiones en el Sur de Asia, desde el siglo XVIII hasta el XXI. En este sentido, centrándonos en los periodos precolonial y colonial, vemos en el crimen un punto de acceso no sólo al desciframiento de la dinámica entre los Estados y los sujetos, sino también al entendimiento de las formas en que las vidas sociales íntimas han sido modeladas por estos encuentros. Sostenemos que el delito es a la vez una categoría producida por regímenes jurídicos y registros gubernamentales, como una práctica que insinúa las intersecciones de la experiencia social y el poder del Estado. Están en juego, entonces, múltiples articulaciones entre categorías autorizadas, formaciones de autoridad del Estado y estructuras de la vida cotidiana. Estas articulaciones por sí mismas su...

Estudios de Asia y África, 2016

El presente ensayo considera la aldea en India como un concepto y una entidad a la vez. Por un la... more El presente ensayo considera la aldea en India como un concepto y una entidad a la vez. Por un lado, los múltiples mapeos y las agudas ambivalencias que rodean a la aldea, a los que doy seguimiento, reflejan el pasado y el presente de la antropología y la sociología de India, incluidos los vínculos disciplinarios con el Estado y la nación. Por el otro, las articulaciones definidas y las expresiones discretas de las aldeas de la región de Chhattisgarh, en la India central, actúan como una suerte de prisma que refleja y refracta los diseños y los detalles del imperio y la modernidad, del proyecto misionero y un cristianismo vernáculo, del derecho (y el orden) oficial y las legalidades (e ilegalidades) cotidianas. En su conjunto, este ensayo aborda las aldeas como interpretadas y habitadas a través de convenciones de significado y práctica de mundos académicos y sociales, mundos que se unen y se separan. En este sentido, la aldea insinúa más que un objeto de entendimiento, una condició...

*Outlook Magazine*, 2017

Stellenbosch is a beautiful town, held as though in a glass bubble. It is caught in an uncanny wa... more Stellenbosch is a beautiful town, held as though in a glass bubble. It is caught in an uncanny warp of snarled space and twisted time, which turn upon each other. Stellenbosch is set amidst the hills of the Cape Winelands, a mere 50 kilometres or so from the haunting (and haunted) Cape Town. The stunningly gorgeous region, which produces some of the finest wines of the world, is home to slavery, indenture, apartheid, and after. An account of how my *Subjects of Modernity* got written.

*Disciplines of Modernity*, 2022

This is an Introduction to *Disciplines of Modernity*, a book that is under contract, presently ... more This is an Introduction to *Disciplines of Modernity*, a book that is under contract, presently with reviewers., Here, I rethink institutionalized formations of anthropology and history – together with modern archives – as themselves intimating disciplines of modernity. To offer this claim is untangle both these enquiries as severally shaped by the Ur-opposition between the “primitive/native” and the “civilized/modern.” To be found genealogically the looming impress of empire and nation, race and reason, and their incessant interplay. At the same time, at stake are analytical and hermeneutical orientations, romanticist and progressivist dispositions, and their formidable entanglements. Understood in their widest senses of the term, these disciplines are constitutively contradictory. This is true also of archives, including/especially in considerations – as in this book – of anthropological and historical knowledges, varieties of social theory, and the repositories of research we ourselves make and uncertainly inhabit as all intimating archival formations.

David Lindenfeld y Miles Richardson (eds.) Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 (Nueva York: Berghahn Books, 2011)., 2011

This chapter explores the interplay of conversion, translation, and life-history in colonial cent... more This chapter explores the interplay of conversion, translation, and life-history in colonial central India, especially in the first half of the twentieth century.

*Historia y grafia*, 2021

(The Spanish text of this paper was published in *Historia y grafia*. The English version -- this... more (The Spanish text of this paper was published in *Historia y grafia*. The English version -- this one -- was also published in the online version of the journal. Here it is now, since various folks had expressed interest in reading it.)

This essay explores issues of worldly immanence and secular transcendence by focusing on modern scholasticism. Such scholasticisms intimate pervasive procedures that turn their particular case into the general story while forgetting the conditions that make this possible. It is exactly such spectacular conjuring that the essay refers to as secular transcendence: implicit assumptions of immaculate knowledge that occlude and ignore the traces and tracks of its maculate birth in the world. Against this is contrasted the presence of worldly immanence, which militates against routine assumptions of the disenchantment of-and detachment toward-the world. Seizing upon such worldly immanence, the essay critically explores how modern scholasticism and secular transcendence formidably beget and betoken the cultural privilege of academic arenas, embodied at once in the latter's conceptual conventions as well as their everyday life-worlds.

*Historia y grafia*, 2021

This essay explores issues of worldly immanence and secular transcendence by focusing on modern s... more This essay explores issues of worldly immanence and secular transcendence by focusing on modern scholasticism. Such scholasticisms intimate pervasive procedures that turn their particular case into the general story while forgetting the conditions that make this possible. It is exactly such spectacular conjuring that the essay refers to as secular transcendence: implicit assumptions of immaculate knowledge that occlude and ignore the traces and tracks of its maculate birth in the world. Against this is contrasted the presence of worldly immanence, which militates against routine assumptions of the disenchantment of-and detachment toward-the world. Seizing upon such worldly immanence, the essay critically explores how modern scholasticism and secular transcendence formidably beget and betoken the cultural privilege of academic arenas, embodied at once in the latter's conceptual conventions as well as their everyday life-worlds.

Cuicuilco: Revista de Ciencia Antropológicas, 2021

This essay is part of a broader anthropological history of elites and privilege, as linked to cap... more This essay is part of a broader anthropological history of elites and privilege, as linked to capital and class, gender and difference, in neoliberal and nationalist, plutocratic and populist times. The project began as the ethnography and history of a specific high school generation, “the class of 1979,” at the ‘Modern School,’ a co-ed institution that embodies the elite status in the heart of New Delhi. Since then, this study has expanded to include varied encounters with agents of power, from fund managers and their capitalist clientele, to bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and academics. Considering the various ways of investigating the elites and their worlds, the study’s exploratory effort focuses on representations of privilege, displays of memory, proclamations of entitlement, economies of affect and the uses of capital, along with their present genealogies. In the context of the transition from postcolonial development to neoliberal capitalism, during the final quarter of the 20th Century, a critical account is offered that intertwines ethnographic accounts, analytical emphases and anecdotal theory. This is also reflected in the style and structure of this essay, which weaves together sociological snapshots, everyday stories, anthropological vignettes, and theoretical textures.

*Práticas da História : Journal on Theory, Historiography, and Uses of the Past*, 2020

Focusing particularly on *Provincializing Europe* (PE), this essay is cast as a close and critica... more Focusing particularly on *Provincializing Europe* (PE), this essay is cast as a close and critical engagement with the work of Dipesh Chakrabarty over almost three decades. To begin with, I trace how Chakrabarty’s provocations have pointed toward post-coloniality and modernity as necessarily contradictory, contended, and contingent procedures and perspectives. Second, the essay tracks pathways that PE haltingly intimates and partially illuminate but mostly routes that the work chiefly shies of treading, in order to open up instead the different registers of historicism, the hermeneutical, and the analytical, including their mutual interplay and formidable entanglements, as formative of modern knowledges. Finally, these steps help foreground my own explorations of modernity. Braiding together analytical impulses and hermeneutic sensibilities, theory and narrative, these efforts have distinguished between historically located subjects of modernity as bearers of heterogeneous reasons/understandings, on the one hand, and routine representations of the modern subject as insinuating a singular rationality, on the other, which together carry wide implications.

*Foreign Affairs en Espanyol*, Vol 7, No. 1, 2007

¿Cuál es la relación entre la modernidad e India? ¿Es algo nuevo la modernidad para India, lo que... more ¿Cuál es la relación entre la modernidad e India? ¿Es algo nuevo la modernidad para India, lo que significaría la transformación, tan sólo en las décadas recientes, de una so-ciedad aparentemente eterna mediante re-des globales de banca e industria, migración e información, y comercio y tecnología? ¿O los diferentes grupos del subcontinente in-dio han participado en grados diversos en los procesos de modernidad durante un periodo mucho más largo? En una palabra, ¿cómo ha de entenderse la modernidad misma? y ¿qué formas han adoptado sus expresiones y discusiones en India? Este ensayo aborda estas cuestiones, y para ello reconocemos la necesidad de con-siderar a la vez ideas dominantes de la mo-dernidad y las imágenes de India que aqué-llas comportan. Ahora, los propios términos de modernidad y de lo moderno, amplia-mente utilizados en los mundos actuales ya desde hace mucho tiempo, descansan tanto en presuposiciones implícitas de lo que esas nociones significan como en imágenes explícitas de los mundos que denotan. Se-gún la comprensión del vulgo y la académi-ca, el estadio de ser moderno y la etapa de entrar en la modernidad suelen aparecer como una superación de la tradición, como una ruptura con lo que existía antes. Ello trae consigo poderosas imágenes opuestas de lo tradicional versus lo moderno: en las formas arquitectónicas, las chozas de adobe versus los rascacielos; en las artes escénicas, los ritmos folclóricos versus las extravagan-cias electrónicas, y, en general, costumbres que nunca cambian versus tecnologías que ya transforman. Todo esto podría ser reconocido fácilmen-te, pero a menudo se pasa por alto cómo tales presuposiciones regulares y presentes y las visiones rivales y viscerales tienen pro-fundos atributos mundanos. Sin embargo, basta con una rápida mirada al mundo actual para ver que continuamente definen las percepciones cotidianas y las prácticas

in *Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Anthropology* , New York: Oxford University Press, 2021

In discussing together history and anthropology, it is often argued that the relationship between... more In discussing together history and anthropology, it is often argued that the relationship between the two has been contradictory and contentious, but that their interplay has also been prescient and productive. At the same time, such considerations are principally premised upon framing anthropology and history as already known disciplines. Arguably, what is needed is another approach to the subjects of history and anthropology, sieving them against their disciplinary conceits. Moreover, this requires exploring the constitutive linkages of the two with empire and nation, time and space, race and reason as well as with wider transformations of the human sciences. These reveal curious connections as much as mutual makeovers. Finally, all of this suggests thinking through received configurations of tradition and temporality, culture and power, and hermeneutic and analytical procedures. These make possible the tracking of astute articulations of subaltern formations and historical conceptions, gender and sexuality, colony and nation, slavery and heritage, and empire and modernity-based on the shared sensibilities of anthropology, history, and associated enquiries. I

*Disciplines of Modernity: Archives, Histories, Anthropologies* , 2022

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical though... more Scrupulously based in anthropology and history – and drawing on social theory and critical thought – this book revisits the disciplines, archives, and subjects of modernity. It rethinks institutionalized formations of anthropology and history – together with "archives" at large – as themselves intimating disciplines of modernity. Understood in the widest senses of the terms, these disciplines are constitutively contradictory.

"*Disciplines of Modernity* is a tour de force from one of the most generative, creative, and surprising thinkers of our time. Weaving personal itineraries with public life, this moving and insightful book cuts to the heart of the hierarchies that continue to shape the global production of knowledge." -- Sunil Amrith, Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven

"History and anthropology are core bridges between humanities and social science. They are integral to the intellectual formations constitutive of 'the West'. And as Saurabh Dube shows, they are not merely university disciplines but also disciplinary formations remaking modern subjectivity and critical perspectives throughout society. This is an original and compelling exploration." -- Craig Calhoun, University Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

*Disciplines of Modernity* is a unique, thought-provoking, and challenging book. It makes an important intervention in the fields of social sciences and humanities by speaking across disciplines and archives. The work takes us forward from the moment of postcolonial and decolonial critique and recasts the framework within which scholars of/ from the global south and the global north may henceforth converse." -- Prathama Banerjee, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

"This is an innovative and inviting, powerful and provocative book. Abjuring the usual 'guarantees' of academic analysis, Dube conjoins intimacy and affect with structure and process. In the work, predilections of the postcolonial are interwoven with the contradictions of modernity, the contentions of disciplines are bound to ambiguities of the archive, and accumulation and development are crisscrossed by loss and excess." -- Mario Rufer,

Desentrañar la política, 2023

An interdisciplinary collection, unravelling politics from the perspective of the everyday.

Published in 2004 by Duke University Press (Worldwide) and Oxford University Press (South Asia), ... more Published in 2004 by Duke University Press (Worldwide) and Oxford University Press (South Asia), *Stitches on Time* was reviewed widely and appreciatively. It was a seriously thought-out yet playfully-rendered book. Does it require another reading, almost two decades after?

*Untouchable Pasts* was/is my first, proper authored book, a labor of love. It constructs a histo... more *Untouchable Pasts* was/is my first, proper authored book, a labor of love. It constructs a history of a large, significant, heretical/Dalit caste-sect of the Chhattisgarh region over the last two hundred years. First published by the State University Press in 1998, the South Asia reprint came out from Sage/Vistaar in 2001. The book was gratifyingly well received.

Historical Anthropology, 2007

"This collection is not merely an important academic source book for students and researchers int... more "This collection is not merely an important academic source book for students and researchers interested in the current status of postcolonial studies. *Postcolonial Passages* is also a scholarly introduction to the diverse, contending strands of history, anthropology, historical anthropology in the field."

*MODERNIDAD E HISTORIA*, 2018

*Modernidad e historia: cuestiones críticas* forma parte del quinteto de antropología histórica e... more *Modernidad e historia: cuestiones críticas*
forma parte del quinteto de antropología
histórica en español escrito por Saurabh
Dube. Publicado por primera vez en 2011,
está compuesto por consideraciones críticas
sobre tiempo y espacio, historia y antropología,
significado y poder, así como acerca de
autoridad e identidad en las delineaciones
de la modernidad. Dube explora los encantos
y las antinomias, los sujetos y los debates de la modernidad
como constitutivos de los mundos sociales. Al mismo tiempo,
desenmaraña la modernidad como una entidad y una categoría,
así como en su carácter de condición y proceso contingente,
contradictorio y controvertido. Tal enfoque reformula (y se
reformula con) la relación entre historia, antropología y antropología
histórica, incluida la influencia de los estudios subalternos
y las perspectivas poscoloniales en estos ámbitos. Hace
hincapié principalmente en la importancia de reconocer la
ambigüedad, la ambivalencia y el exceso en las recientes
reconfiguraciones de las disciplinas, sobre todo en las exploraciones
críticas de la modernidad. Esta segunda edición de
*Modernidad e historia* contiene un incisivo prefacio de Mario
Rufer, una nueva introducción que resalta cuestiones de
tiempo y espacio en los entendimientos de la modernidad, y
una bibliografía expandida y actualizada.

South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall, 101, 4, 2002

This is a special issue of *SAQ*, edited by Dube, which contains a stellar cast of contributors a... more This is a special issue of *SAQ*, edited by Dube, which contains a stellar cast of contributors addressing critical questions of the enticements of modernity: the enchantments that endure are enchantments to endure.

[Scattered Histories], 2007

This is the third title in Dube's quintet -- authored obviously! -- in historical anthropology in... more This is the third title in Dube's quintet -- authored obviously! -- in historical anthropology in the Spanish language.

*Cultura política y subalternidad en America Latina (Tunja, Colombia: UPTC), 2019

Co-authored book discussing issues of nation, culture, state, modernity, and politics in Latin Am... more Co-authored book discussing issues of nation, culture, state, modernity, and politics in Latin America and the Global South

Dube, Seth, Skaria (ed.), *Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South* (London: Routledge), 2020

Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty’s astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elab... more Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty’s astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elaborated a range of important issues, especially those of modernity, identity, and politics – in dialogue with postcolonial theory and critical historiography – on global and planetary scales. All of this makes Chakrabarty among the most significant (and most cited) scholars working in the humanities and social sciences today. The present text comprises substantive yet short, academic yet accessible essays that are crafted in conversation with the critical questions raised by Chakrabarty’s writings.

Now, Chakrabarty holds the singular distinction of making key contributions
to some of the most salient shifts in understandings of the Global South that have come about in wake of subaltern studies and postcolonial perspectives, critiques of Eurocentrism together with elaborations of public pasts, and articulations of climatic histories alongside problems of the Anthropocene. Rather than exegeses and commentaries, these original, commissioned, pieces – written by a stellar cast of contributors from four continents – imaginatively engage Chakrabarty’s insights and arguments in order to incisively explore important issues of the politics of knowledge in contemporary worlds. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students interested in a wide variety of interdisciplinary issues across the humanities and social sciences,
especially the interplay between postcolonial perspectives and subaltern studies,
between man-made climate change and the human sciences, between history and
theory, and between modernity and globalization.

*Unbecoming Modern*, second edition, Routledge and Social Science Press, 2019

Twelve years after its initial publication, Unbecoming Modern is being reissued in an internation... more Twelve years after its initial publication, Unbecoming Modern is being reissued in an international edition with Routledge. This is a matter of some gratification and intellectual enthusiasm, especially as an earlier avatar of the work (Dube, Banerjee-Dube, and Mignolo, 2004) in the Spanish language continues to garner much critical interest in different parts of the world. The attraction derives from the place of this wider endeavour as possibly the only one of its kind that sets up key conversations between Latin American and South Asian worlds, particularly as turning on the interplay between the colonial and the modern. The appeal is equally related to the fact that various chapters in the volume articulate key concerns of “coloniality” (of power) and “decoloniality” (of knowledge), which have acquired wide address and vital significance in scholarly and political arenas. Indeed, Unbecoming Modern and the questions it raises have themselves formed part of the larger articulation of such interests and issues.

*El archivo y el campo: Historia, antropologia, modernidad* (Collecion Antologias), Mexico DF: El Colegio de Mexico, 2019

(Texto complete/full text available below) Este libro ofrece un entendimiento distintivo de la an... more (Texto complete/full text available below)
Este libro ofrece un entendimiento distintivo de la antropología, la historia y la modernidad, articulando críticamente el archivo y el campo. El trabajo reúne una variedad de escritos de Saurabh Dube sobre imperio y nación, comunidad y género, Estado y subalterno, religión y política, cristianismo y conversión, legalidades e ilegalidades, colonialismo y evangelismo, modernismo y arte, y modernidad e identidad, incluyendo la formidable interacción entre estos temas. En conjunto, la antología no sólo se basa en una imaginativa investigación de archivo y campo, sino que también proporciona consideraciones más amplias sobre las disciplinas, la metodología y la teoría.

En *El archivo y el campo*, la narrativa y la teoría trabajan en conjunto, y lo conceptual y lo empírico, nunca separados, están profundamente sembrados en los procedimientos y protocolos del trabajo. El libro ni separa ni segrega fácilmente la colonia de la nación, el género de la casta/la clase/la comunidad, lo subalterno de lo dominante, el signi¬ficado del poder, la alteridad de la autoridad. En cambio, centrándose en procesos concretos de cultura y poder, revela la creación de mundos históricos y contemporáneos de la modernidad y sus sujetos. Así, este trabajo intenta articular los terrenos sociales y las concepciones académicas como espacios constituidos por la combinación de procesos, que son contingentes y contradictorios; por los conocimientos, que son hermenéuticos y analíticos; por los imaginarios, que son afectivos y personificados, y por los sujetos, que son sensoriales y espectrales.

Straddling a range of disciplinary perspectives and covering a variety of geographical regions, t... more Straddling a range of disciplinary perspectives and covering a variety of geographical regions, the contributors to Enchantments of Modernity imaginatively explore questions of colonization and decolonization, memory and madness, affect and authority, and cosmopolitanism and fundamentalism. The authors incisively elaborate on issues of imperial power and nationalist knowledge, metropolitan histories and vernacular pasts, secular principles and democratic practices, and global economics and postcolonial politics.

En la India del siglo XIX, región, poder y comunidad son temas fundamentales. De lo antiguo a lo ... more En la India del siglo XIX, región, poder y comunidad son temas fundamentales. De lo antiguo a lo moderno los analiza desde una variedad de perspectivas a través de diferentes regiones. El libro muestra la historiografía reciente y crea espacios para el diálogo y el debate. Los ensayos exploran distintos aspectos de la religión en el contexto de la conformación y la articulación del poder: desde discusiones sobre prácticas heréticas y ascéticas en el periodo antiguo y medieval, hasta expresiones cotidianas de la casta y la comunidad en la era moderna y contemporánea. El volumen combina estudios del hinduismo, así como de la cristiandad. Sus eminentes colaboradores mezclan la historia con la antropología, el trabajo de archivo y el trabajo de campo, y el análisis textual y la exégesis teorética. Desde diversas aproximaciones, cada capítulo, escrito específicamente para este volumen, explora y desestabiliza comprensiones establecidas y verdades aceptadas, generando espacios para la reflexión crítica. Los ensayos destacan cuestiones críticas en el estudio histórico de la región y el poder en el sur de Asia pre-colonial, colonial y post-colonial. La introducción también ofrece un breve retrato intelectual de David. N. Lorenzen, un reconocido estudioso de la historia cultural y la religión popular en la India pre-colonial.

Modernidad e historia, 2018

*Modernidad e historia: cuestiones críticas* forma parte del quinteto de antropología históric... more *Modernidad e historia: cuestiones críticas*
forma parte del quinteto de antropología
histórica en español escrito por Saurabh
Dube. Publicado por primera vez en 2011,
está compuesto por consideraciones críticas
sobre tiempo y espacio, historia y antropología,
significado y poder, así como acerca de
autoridad e identidad en las delineaciones
de la modernidad. Dube explora los encantos
y las antinomias, los sujetos y los debates de la modernidad
como constitutivos de los mundos sociales. Al mismo tiempo,
desenmaraña la modernidad como una entidad y una categoría,
así como en su carácter de condición y proceso contingente,
contradictorio y controvertido. Tal enfoque reformula (y se
reformula con) la relación entre historia, antropología y antropología
histórica, incluida la influencia de los estudios subalternos
y las perspectivas poscoloniales en estos ámbitos. Hace
hincapié principalmente en la importancia de reconocer la
ambigüedad, la ambivalencia y el exceso en las recientes
reconfiguraciones de las disciplinas, sobre todo en las exploraciones
críticas de la modernidad. Esta segunda edición de
*Modernidad e historia* contiene un incisivo prefacio de Mario
Rufer, una nueva introducción que resalta cuestiones de
tiempo y espacio en los entendimientos de la modernidad, y
una bibliografía expandida y actualizada.(Text of book to be uploaded soon.)

*The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History*, eds. Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee (New York and London), 2025

This chapter offers an affective interchange with key attributes of the words and worlds of Ranaj... more This chapter offers an affective interchange with key attributes of the words and worlds of Ranajit Guha, widely known today as the founder of Subaltern Studies. Cast as a close conversation with the compelling images and critical imaginaries of the indefatigable intellectual, which shored up his life and oeuvre, the endeavour seeks to think through the inner pulls and formative tensions of Guha's thought and writing. The tensions traverse key shifts between opposed sensibilities as well as unfamiliar juxtapositions of contrary ideas. The pulls straddle subterranean continuities as bound to productive contradictions. To prudently track such fecund jumbles is to undertake interwoven readings. Thus, Subaltern Studies, its disciplines, and their genealogies are approached in the chapter via the difference introduced to them by a particular scholar, Ranajit Guha-subject of a jaded colonial power, subject of in-your-face national regimes, subject of strangely shifting diasporas, subject of an increasingly burning and melting planet.

Dube, "Series Editor's Foreword" to *The Dazzle of the Digital: Unbundling India Online* by Bal and Saran , 2022

Here is a work that invites us to be ever cognizant of contradictions of worlds, which make urgen... more Here is a work that invites us to be ever cognizant of contradictions of worlds, which make urgent demands on us. Its authors equally impel us to stay with and think through such wider contrariness. To engage such spirit, substance, and sensibility of the book is to discover Bal and Sharan as offering imaginative ethnographic accounts of state and governance, ahead of endless alchemies of digital technologies and developmental fantasies.
At the end, DoD is at once an optic and a register. If we do not make that ready separation between subject and object, the expert and the world, the authors of this book – and the writer of this Foreword – do not emerge as somehow autonomous analysts. Rather, we are all subjects of the digital, the technological, the developmental, and of course much else. To be found amidst ourselves are subjects and technologies entirely enmeshed in the contentions and contrariety of modernity, the blinkers and seductions of progress, already always in quotidian keys.

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*Disciplines of Modernity*, 2022

*Disciplines of Modernity* turns to three connected congeries of considerations. First, the work ... more *Disciplines of Modernity* turns to three connected congeries of considerations. First, the work seeks to understand anthropologies and histories as themselves insinuating disciplines of modernity, approaching the terms in capacious yet critical ways that extend these institutionalized enquiries beyond conventional claims of their being merely modern disciplines. Second, it attends simultaneously to subjects of privilege and precarity, particularly as turning upon elites and Dalits. Finally, the book explores figures of affect and entitlement, including as drawing in the terms and textures of (earthly) immanence and (modern) scholasticism. Each of these distinct yet overlapping procedures engages, expresses, and articulates often cunning, even uncanny, archives of modernity, which straddle tacit meanings, explicit authority, and their pervasive admixtures.

*Historia, Sociedad y Politica en India Contemporanea: Miradas multiples* eds. Andres Rio Molina, 2016

A paper based on a conferencia magistral in UNAM.

Historical Anthropology, 2007

This paper is in two parts: please find the second part by going into the files listed above.

"in Saurabh Dube, Sanjay Seth, Ajay Skaria (eds.), *Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene*, Routledge, 2020., 2020

An earlier version of this chapter has been posted as "Figures of Modernity" on academia.edu: the... more An earlier version of this chapter has been posted as "Figures of Modernity" on academia.edu: the shifts between the last and this version should be evident to anyone who has read the previous one. The present chapter also unravels the pervasive presence of distinct scholasticism(s) – involving the substitution of any contentious “is” by their own “ought” – in academic and everyday worlds. Indeed, I explore how these tendencies are tied to formidable conceits of knowledge-making that are variously founded on terms of transcendence, secular yet prophetic, which come to haunt even those bids that seek to escape them. Throughout, I shall seek to unravel, if often implicitly, the place of a worldly immanence – itself tied to textures of affect and embodiment, formations of the sensuous and the political – as a means of approaching and understanding the past and present. At the end, I shall draw together these considerations by articulating anew my prior proposal made in 2004 of a “history without warranty”, propositions in which an engagement with Dipesh loomed large, often implicitly but also otherwise.
Clearly, running through this chapter is a querying of the prerogatives of scholasticisms, especially the immaculate ought they betoken and betray, in academic arenas. Here, I approach the academy as a culturally and politically layered arena, constituted by distinct formations of privilege and hierarchy, entitlements and their interrogations, which turn, for instance, on gender and caste, class and race, status and sexuality. Academic arenas can be thought of, then, as rather in the manner of an ethnographic fields, located in space-time, ever part of social worlds with their own quotidian cultures, in which academics work but also live. The utterances and practices of scholarly subjects, especially those of the observer, in everyday academic spaces – for example, seminars, cafes, bookshops, and social media – can be enormously revealing here. Such routine words and reflex gestures often reveal wider assumptions and affects, entitlements and experiences of intellectual terrains. Unsurprisingly, too, despite the constant clamor of academic arguments as being unsullied by everyday worlds, the certified statements within academy are also haunted by the mundane, its perversions and possibilities.
Indeed, the point precisely might be to not separate the everyday assumption and the accredited expression of intellectual endeavor. For, taken together, at stake are un-said, under-said, and already-said orientations and arguments undergirding life and understanding within academic cultures. In the pages ahead, I explore at once the quotidian manifestations and the licensed expressions of scholarly domains. It is in these ways that I also intimate, necessarily implicitly, the wider terms of privilege and their questioning in social worlds, which academic arenas embody and in which they are embedded, albeit of course in their own ways.

Saurabh Dube, Sanjay Seth, Ajay Skaria (eds.), *Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene*, London: Routledge. , 2020

Across the past four decades, the work of Dipesh Chakrabarty has offered wide-ranging reflections... more Across the past four decades, the work of Dipesh Chakrabarty has offered wide-ranging reflections on history, modernity, and the character and limits of the disciplines that constitute the human sciences. A central challenge issued by these writings has turned, in distinct yet overlapping ways, on the “un-thought” and “under-enunciated” of theory and practice in the disciplines, at large. Thus, in work of the 1980s on jute mill workers, Dipesh queried the historiographical assumption of absolute individuation of the modern worker, which obscured the hierarchical relations of the working-classes in Bengal. In these ways, Chakrabarty pointed to how “culture” and “consciousness” intimated “the ‘unthought’ of Indian Marxism.” Across the long 1990s, Dipesh raised key questions concerning the pervasive ways in which a spectral yet tangible Europe/West stands reified and celebrated as the site and scene of the birth of the modern, working as a silent referent that dominates the discourse of history. Alongside, he opened up issues of historical difference, revealing glimmers of heterogeneous temporal-spatial terrains, through various measures that each underscored the under- and un-enunciation of “place”. Finally, over the past decade Dipesh has highlighted how “public pasts” are at once invoked yet occluded, routinized and obscured, as they variously break upon professional practices of history writing. He has pointed as well to the requirements of thinking through the “rift” between the “global” the “planetary”, so that the human species as a geological force of the Anthropocene does not remain “un-thought” and “under-enunciated” following the protocols of human historical experience.

Clearly, in taking up such tasks Chakrabarty has brought to the fore critical matters of method and theory, concept and evidence, philosophical thought and historical understanding. This book is offered as a sustained engagement – critical conversations rather than mere exegeses – with the main themes in Dipesh’s oeuvre.

Dube, "Series Editor's Foreword" to *Money, Culture, Class: Elite Women as Modern Subjects* by Parul Bhandari, a volume in Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects, edited by Saurabh Dube, 2019

It is a pleasure to write this Foreword to the second title in the Routledge Focus on Modern Subj... more It is a pleasure to write this Foreword to the second title in the Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects. In what follows, I shall first introduce the series and then turn to the book.
It is the very strengths of Money, Culture, Class that allow me to raise such questions, to foreground these queries. Bhandari’s engagement with her subjects and their worlds is far from the familiar, omniscient business-as-usual of academic enquiry. Instead, her attempt is enter these arenas in order to understand herself and ourselves, pointing toward such habitations of the modern as themselves bearing corporeal, sensuous, and embodied attributes – in India, and across the globe. To my mind, all this not only gives the lie but also shows the finger to that immaculate gaze of the preening scholar, those a priori verities of intellectual conceit. For, an imaginative ethnography of elite women in India’s capital acutely reminds us of the haunting of contemporary terrains by scandals of privilege – including our own complicities in these outrages of entitlement – as not mere errors of understanding, but as bearing dark affects and ominous effects of a dense, worldly provenance.

"Coloniality, modernity, decoloniality A new introduction to the second edition of *Unbecoming Modern*, 2019

In this new introduction, we propose to undertake three tasks. Each of these moves imaginatively ... more In this new introduction, we propose to undertake three tasks.
Each of these moves imaginatively extends and critically supplements the discussion in the earlier introduction to the volume. These
considerations crucially concerned the pressing requirements of:
(1) historically grounding colonialisms; (2) adequately specifying
the terms of modernity; and (3) prudently addressing the imperatives
of power and difference in critical endeavor. Unsurprisingly, on
offer ahead are deeper historical specifications of colonial cultures,
succinct understandings of the contradictions of modernity as well
as the contentions of its subjects, and prudent readings of de-colonial
claims. These themes are reflected in the title of this introductory
essay. After this prologue, they are presented as an act in three scenes,
followed by an epilogue.

This was the draft chapter for a volume of essays whose purpose will become clear from reading th... more This was the draft chapter for a volume of essays whose purpose will become clear from reading the first few pages of the paper. The chapter was not included in the volume eventually. But I have let stand here as an archival trace. Do comment, but please do not cite without permission, please.

This chapter explores some of the ways in which affect and entitlement, friendship and privilege,... more This chapter explores some of the ways in which affect and entitlement, friendship and privilege, and memory and hierarchy come together and fall apart. Focusing on my diverse elite subjects, including members of my cohort from high school – a co-educational institution with a privileged status in the heart of New Delhi – I seek to weave together narrative and analysis, ethnographic vignettes and anecdotal theory. Here, the many faces, colors, and smells of privilege are crucial to tracking the distinctions and differences, the contradictions and contentions among the elite. Indeed, at the core of my interpretive bid are critical questions turning on the incessant interplay between power and difference, authority and alterity.

This chapter raises key questions concerning religion, individualisation, and religious individua... more This chapter raises key questions concerning religion, individualisation, and religious individualisation/institutionalisation. It does so by exploring the interplay of conversion, translation, and life-stories. Such interplay was embedded within processes of evangelical entanglements between Euro-American missionaries and central-Indian peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Specifically, I focus on autobiographies and biographies of converts to Christianity in the Chhattisgarh region of central India, especially accounts written in the first half of the twentieth century. Here, the ordinary nature and the very details of these texts – mediated by procedures of vernacular translation – not only reveal the writings as key registers of evangelical entanglements. They further foreground critical queries that turn on religion and politics, individual and subject, individualisation and personhood, institutionalisation and akrasia.

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*Estudios de Asia y Africa*, 2002

An interesting review in the Spanish language.

*Estudios de Asia y Africa*, 2004

A detailed and imaginative review by a young Mario Rufer of Dube (ed) *Enduing Enchantments*, a s... more A detailed and imaginative review by a young Mario Rufer of Dube (ed) *Enduing Enchantments*, a special number of *SAQ: South Atlantic Review* (Duke University Press, 2002), published in *Estudios de Asia y Africa*

South Asian History and Culture, 2012

Interesting -- at times, overwritten -- review.

*Ethnos*, 2001

"In such interpretations Dube makes two major theoretical interventions relevant to ethnographic ... more "In such interpretations Dube makes two major theoretical interventions relevant to ethnographic practice. First, he convincingly argues [for] lower-castes’ own logic of renegotiating signifiers [as] meaningful rejections of the caste order. Second, he therefore argues that by locating those practices in the flux of everyday life they can be better understood as categorical mediations. Satnamis and their others are constantly negotiating, reinterpreting, and mediating between state and local community, power and religion, myth and contingency, caste and sect, and the like. Of the four books Dube’s is the most theoretically innovative and ambitious. It holds special interest for anthropologists."

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*Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*, 2001

A generous review by a senior anthropologist in a flagship journal of my first monograph, *Untouc... more A generous review by a senior anthropologist in a flagship journal of my first monograph, *Untouchable Pasts*. (Do contrast it with review 10 of the same work.)

*Contributions to Indian Sociology* , 2012

Prathama Banerjee has written an imaginative and generous review (CIS, 44 (3) 2010: 431-34) of my... more Prathama Banerjee has written an imaginative and generous review (CIS, 44 (3) 2010: 431-34) of my edited Historical Anthropology (OUP, 2007; henceforth, HA), especially when discussing the volume's five sections comprising twenty chapters. At the same time, her comments -- appreciative and critical -- on my Introduction to the book raise key questions. At stake, indeed, are intriguing issues of the protocols of scholarly readings. It is some of these considerations that I wish to highlight here.

*American Historical Review*, 1999

A terribly curious -- or curiously terrible -- review of *Untouchable Pasts* (and that too in a f... more A terribly curious -- or curiously terrible -- review of *Untouchable Pasts* (and that too in a flagship journal). Rather misses the ethnographic and methodological, critical and conceptual, anthropological-historical and theoretical thrust of the work. There was a great rejoinder, also in *AHR, by a fellow-traveller a little later. But, then, all this was so long ago.

Practicas de Historia, 2020

A review in Portugese by A. Carvalho of *Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studi... more A review in Portugese by A. Carvalho of *Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene*, edited by Saurabh Dube, Sanjay Seth, and Ajay Skaria (London: Routledge, 2020).

American Historical Review, 2008

An innovative and imaginative account of popular politics, one that falls short of articulating i... more An innovative and imaginative account of popular politics, one that falls short of articulating its own implications and import.

*Social History*, 2009

In this intelligent and important work, Prachi Deshpande creatively constructs ‘a social history ... more In this intelligent and important work, Prachi Deshpande creatively constructs ‘a social history of historiography’ (6) – or a genealogy of history entailing overlapping yet disjunctive pasts – in the large Maharashtra region of western India. Combining a range of readings that draw upon
a variety of archival, literary and cultural materials in the Marathi and English languages, the book unravels the terms, textures and transformations not only of history writing, but also of historical consciousness, memory and identity in the region over the last three hundred years. Deshpande writes in a lucid and lively style, and the book is bound through tight organization, but without betraying a schematic structure. At the same time, Deshpande [displays] a wider reluctance to de-familiarize (and make strange) historical knowledge(s) – as practice, discipline and imagination. On the one hand, such predilections lead her to acknowledge only insufficiently discussions of critical difference in formations of historical consciousness that have a contentious
connection with written genres, even assimilating such scholarship in the Indian context to memory studies (e.g. 3, 213 n.9). On the other hand, she overlooks the terms of authority, especially procedures of excision and selection, in the production of narrative collections, especially those of oral traditions, quite as the book (uncertainly) privileges the textual in approaching the past and (uneasily) takes for granted the nature of history. Such tensions in this imaginative and innovative work are not simply disabling, but productive to ponder.

Economic and Political Weekly, 2005

A somewhat mealy-mouthed review, which overlooks the simple fact that this book was proposed by B... more A somewhat mealy-mouthed review, which overlooks the simple fact that this book was proposed by Barney Cohn, and the idea supported by Ranajit Guha, to OUP after the Spanish version came out in 1999. This is discussed early in the Preface. (It would churlish and worse to turn down those senior subjects to whom we dedicate our volumes, verdad/right?) Also, this English version has overlaps with but also differs from *Pasados poscoloniales.* All above is said without any rancor: rather, as a discussion of intellectual/academic cultures, at large.

*Economic and Political Weekly*, 2002

Please download to read: A somewhat strange and "scholastic" review, where the reviewer wants the... more Please download to read: A somewhat strange and "scholastic" review, where the reviewer wants the author to write a book of his (reviewer's) choosing: "political" rather than "interpretive", even if the politics desired had little connection with the subject of the study.

*The Book Review*, 2014

In the past few years, India has witnessed a renewed interest in the category of criminal acts ra... more In the past few years, India has witnessed a renewed interest in
the category of criminal acts ranging from corruption to cases of
violence against women. In the light of such debates, *Crime
Through Time*, a collection of writings on crime in the Indian
subcontinent covering about 200 years, is topical indeed. As the
editors of the anthology point out, the history of crime is also a
history of law as well as evolving ideas of justice. Defining what
constitutes a criminal act has always been the prerogative of the
state and is an important aspect in the exercise of asserting
legitimacy and sovereignty. And yet at no point has this function
of the state remained uncontested; constant subversion of a
disciplinary apparatus through willful transgressions or everyday
practices of the subjects meant to be ordered. The contributors
bring to relief the discursive production of crime and the
simultaneous institutionalization of the legal system, obscuring its
historical genesis.

*Economic and Political Weekly*, 2004

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*Economic and Political Weekly*, 2006

Please download the piece to read it. [Here are the ] explicit analytical shifts that the editor... more Please download the piece to read it. [Here are the ] explicit analytical shifts that the editors and the contributors of the volume attempt. The first of these is a simultaneous of two very pertinent issues, (i) recent scholarly endeavors have come a significant way towards questioning taken-for-granted assumptions in our understanding of modernity, power, identity and knowledge, and yet,
(ii) despite the best efforts of "strategies of reading and writing", representations of"universal history" and binaries such as myth and history, modernity and tradition, and east and west continue to endure in both academic and non-academic spheres. [This volume goes beyond the ways in which] majority of the recent works on modernity and history have, maybe inadvertently, been content to valorize either one or the other side of this equation.

*Historia Mexicana*, 2022

Please download the piece to read it....Lo que importa destacar es la insistencia del autor insis... more Please download the piece to read it....Lo que importa destacar es la insistencia del autor insistencia en el ejercicio difícil y poco complaciente de interpretar sin reificar, de argumentar sin crear taxonomías sociológicas, de historizar sin dejar de reflexionar sobre el proceso mismo de “producción de historia”, es la constante que se despliega en esta obra y es probablemente la advertencia más astuta y también el legado más impresionante de Saurabh Dube. Algunos tuvimos (y aún tenemos) la suerte de pensar caminando con él. Para muchos, afortunadamente, queda esta obra de largo alcance, con una edición preciosa y una traducción ejemplar, que hace justicia a un pensador a estas alturas fundamental para el sur global.
....Para Dube la forma de la escritura compone el mundo que quiere significar. Es interesante ver esa composición en la antología que recorre una obra de autor. Saurabh Dube escribe rimas, adjetivaciones superpuestas, contradicciones simultáneas, binarismos iterativos; las alegorías y un uso constante de la ironía conforman la poética de su predilección epistemológica: parece estar siempre rompiendo el contrato de complicidad con el lector. Cuando creímos entender la idea prístina que está atrás del opus monumento, el autor la derriba. Parece estar siempre exponiéndonos (y confrontándonos como lectores e investigadores) a la precaria duda sobre la que construimos las certeras voces de la razón, la modernidad, la historia, la tradición o la cultura. ...Saurabh blande la idea de una “historia sin garantías”, quizás uno de los conceptos del autor al que más cariño le tengo porque tanto me ayudó a pensar. Como nos expone en el capítulo sobre historia y modernidad, una historia sin garantías apostaría por develar cuan difícil sigue siendo difícil salir de lo que Bourdieu llamó “la razón escolástica”, la que vemos a menudo en quienes escriben sobre/por los subalternos siempre que éstos habiten el terreno imaginado de la pureza, el compromiso (unilateralmente entendido) y el retorno (como origen-garantía, siempre diferido de los horrores del mundo real). Y continuamos reacios a escribir para un conocimiento sin garantías, que intente dar cuenta de la contradicción que habita la práctica, del rito que desborda a la historia, de la performance que excede la interpretación o de las acciones cuya justificación del sentido sigue siendo, en gran parte, insubordinable a la razón (escolástica, instrumental e incluso crítica). ...Lo que importa destacar es la insistencia del autor insistencia en el ejercicio difícil y poco complaciente de interpretar sin reificar, de argumentar sin crear taxonomías sociológicas, de historizar sin dejar de reflexionar sobre el proceso mismo de “producción de historia”, es la constante que se despliega en esta obra y es probablemente la advertencia más astuta y también el legado más impresionante de Saurabh Dube. Algunos tuvimos (y aún tenemos) la suerte de pensar caminando con él. Para muchos, afortunadamente, queda esta obra de largo alcance, con una edición preciosa y una traducción ejemplar, que hace justicia a un pensador a estas alturas fundamental para el sur global.

*Estudios de Asia y Africa*, 2020

Dube tiene una voz juguetona. Su pluma busca temas densos y complejos—temas que resisten ser redu... more Dube tiene una voz juguetona. Su pluma busca temas densos y complejos—temas que resisten ser reducidos a la ortodoxia disciplinaria—y los somete al análisis riguroso sin conceder la oralidad de la poética. Este espíritu travieso alumbra los caminos sinuosos de la modernidad, repletos de bifurcación, señalamientos falsos y uno que otro callejón sin salida. Pero más allá de la estética, estamos frente a un autor crítico que cultiva lo que él mismo denomina una historia sin garantías, una historia de oposición en el sentido más amplio del término.

*Economic and Political Weekly*, 2006

Please download the piece to read it. With its lyrical tenor, conversational approach and inspi... more Please download the piece to read it. With its lyrical tenor, conversational approach and inspired
indecision between the archive and the field, *Stitches on Time* is an irresistible feast for the historical imagination. In producing a history that is visibly kind to theoretical abstractions, Dube does not rehearse the sanctioned sidestepping of the minutiae. Rather, his way with the archival
materials involves a critical recuperation of "details"-frequently dismissed in monumental histories as inconsequential trivia - without folding them back into a numbing empiricism. In fact, Dube's details do not add up to, or shore up, the dominant storyline. Suggesting irreversible refractions and enacting continual dispersals of the master narrative, they remain intimately tied to an understanding of the everyday articulations of power and transgression

[This is say that] far from being a programmatic micro-history or an authorized biography of a vibrant community, this book [delineates] a wider dramaturgical space - the theatre of the everyday in a colonial
world. In that uneven terrain of the familiar and the unperceived, Dube
argues, unspectacular negotiations of "the widest questions of meaning and power" (p 34) continued, causing, among other things, critical and inconstant entanglements between the dominant and the subaltern.

*Estudios de Asia y Africa*, 2020

Las nociones de modernidad y de sujeto son dos de los enclaves teóricos más disputados en la teor... more Las nociones de modernidad y de sujeto son dos de los enclaves teóricos más disputados en la teoría crítica, al menos desde finales de la segunda guerra. Saurabh Dube, en *Subjects of modernity* (en su edición sudafricana), texto denso epistémicay empíricamente, recorre las posturas clásicas y “alternativas” sobre la conjunción de ambos, y propone una lectura crítica, nada complaciente y muy sutil.

*Estudios de Asia y Africa*, 2004

"ARTÍCULO-RESEÑA: ENCANTOS PERDURABLES, ORDENAMIENTOS PERSISTENTES (O GENEALOGÍAS DE LA MODERNIDA... more "ARTÍCULO-RESEÑA: ENCANTOS PERDURABLES, ORDENAMIENTOS PERSISTENTES (O GENEALOGÍAS DE LA MODERNIDAD): REFLEXIONES EN TORNO DE UN DEBATE"
La modernidad como concepto se apoya en la idea de una dislo-cación, un desplazamiento; como tal, produce efectos y sentidos sociales en las prácticas, y su idea funciona como una ruptu-a, como expresa Saurabh Dube en la introducción del texto con el que trabajaremos: *Enduring Enchantments*. En el proceso productor de esta idea, el sujeto teórico supremo (Europa) ha construido (por medio de su andamiaje de instituciones políticas, administrativas y sin duda académicas) los binarismos clásicos con los que-más o menos conscientemente, más o menos sistemá-ticamente-aprehendemos parte de la realidad social y "localizamos" nuestro mapeo cotidiano de sujetos y espacios.

Straddling a range of disciplinary perspectives and covering a variety of geographical regions, t... more Straddling a range of disciplinary perspectives and covering a variety of geographical regions, the contributors to Enchantments of Modernity imaginatively explore questions of colonization and decolonization, memory and madness, affect and authority, and cosmopolitanism and fundamentalism. The authors incisively elaborate on issues of imperial power and nationalist knowledge, metropolitan histories and vernacular pasts, secular principles and democratic practices, and global economics and postcolonial politics.

Adda, 2020

A video conversation with Dev Pathak on precarity, modernity, scholasticism, and intellectual co... more A video conversation with Dev Pathak on precarity, modernity, scholasticism, and intellectual community

Lecture by Eminent Persons at ICG, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8WRpY3GV2s Modernism in South Asia by Saurabh Dube: Lecture by ... more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8WRpY3GV2s

Modernism in South Asia by Saurabh Dube: Lecture by Eminent Persons at ICG, Goa, 2016

Saurabh Dube in conversation with Carlos Marichal about *Subjects of Modernity*, 2017

Dube's conversation with the distinguished historian of the Americas, Carlos Marichal, about *Sub... more Dube's conversation with the distinguished historian of the Americas, Carlos Marichal, about *Subjects of Modernity* (2017)

*Money, Culture, Class* by Parul Bhandari (Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects), 2019

Parul Bhandari’s book is the second title in this Focus series. The volumes in the series explore... more Parul Bhandari’s book is the second title in this Focus series. The volumes in the series explore quotidian claims made on the modern – understood as idea and image, practice and procedure – as part of everyday articulations of modernity on the Indian sub-continent. Here, the category-entity of the subject refers not only to social actors who have been active participants in historical processes of modernity, but as equally implying branch of learning and area of study, topic and theme, question and matter, and issue and business. Our effort would be to address such modern subjects in a range of distinct yet overlaying ways. Its titles address the queries and concepts entailed in earlier explorations of the modern and recent reconsiderations of modernity by focusing on a clutch of common and critical questions. Our bid is not to indolently exorcize aggrandizing representations of modernity as the West, but to prudently track instead the play of such projections in the commonplace unraveling of the modern in India today.

Bhandari’s engagement with her subjects and their worlds is far from the familiar, omniscient business-as-usual of academic enquiry. Instead, her attempt is enter these arenas in order to understand herself and ourselves, pointing toward such habitations of the modern as themselves bearing corporeal, sensuous, and embodied attributes – in India, and across the globe. To my mind, all this not only gives the lie but also shows the finger to that immaculate gaze of the preening scholar, those a priori verities of intellectual conceit. For, an imaginative ethnography of elite women in India’s capital acutely reminds us of the haunting of contemporary terrains by scandals of privilege – including our own complicities in these outrages of entitlement – as not mere errors of understanding, but as bearing dark affects and ominous effects of a dense, worldly provenance.

*Instrumental Lives: An Intimate Biography of an Indian Laboratory*, 2018

Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects: Series Editor, Saurabh Dube Pankaj Sekhsaria's book is the fi... more Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects: Series Editor, Saurabh Dube
Pankaj Sekhsaria's book is the first title in this Focus series. The volumes in the series explore quotidian claims made on the modern – understood as idea and image, practice and procedure – as part of everyday articulations of modernity on the Indian sub-continent. Here, the category-entity of the subject refers not only to social actors who have been active participants in historical processes of modernity, but as equally implying branch of learning and area of study, topic and theme, question and matter, and issue and business. Our effort would be to address such modern subjects in a range of distinct yet overlaying ways.

Its titles would address the queries and concepts entailed in earlier explorations of the modern and recent reconsiderations of modernity by focusing on a clutch of common and critical questions. Our bid is not to indolently exorcize aggrandizing representations of modernity as the West, but to prudently track instead the play of such projections in the commonplace unraveling of the modern in India today.

Saurabh Dube. Reúne una variedad de escritos sobre imperio y nación, comunidad y género, Estado y... more Saurabh Dube. Reúne una variedad de escritos sobre imperio y nación, comunidad y género, Estado y subalterno, religión y política, cristianismo y conversión, legalidades e ilegalidades, colonialismo y evangelismo, modernismo y arte, y modernidad e identidad, incluida la formidable interacción entre estos temas. Se basa en una imaginativa investigación de archivo y campo, y proporciona consideraciones más amplias sobre las disciplinas, la metodología y la teoría.