This book is the thirteenth in the OIRSSA series. It deals with the interchange-both theoretical and empirical-between the disciplines of history and anthropology over the last three decades.

Saurabh Dube, Professor of History, Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico.

• Preface; Introduction: Anthropology, History, Historical Anthropology (Saurabh Dube); Part 1: Formations; 1: Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism (Bernard Cohn); 2: Negation (Ranajit Guha); 3: The Making of a Prophet (K.S. Singh); 4: Famine (Paul Greenough); Part 2: Genealogies; 5: Genealogy and Legend (Ravindra Jain); 6: Reading Time (Ishita Banerjee Dube); 7: Reconstructions of the Past (Susan Visvanathan); 8: A Contested Past (Saurabh Dube); Part 3: Communities; 9: The Bigoted Julaha (Gyanendra Pandey); 10: Rebellion (Malavika Kasturi); 11: Wildness: Livelihood, Kinship, and Gender (Ajay Skaria); 12: Time, Self, and Community (Veena Das); Part 4: Culture and Power; 13: Shoes (Ann G. Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujjar);


• 14: The Dialectics of Dussehra (Nandini Sundar); 15: Geographies of Empire (K. Sivaramakrishnan); 16: Gaze and Grasp (John Kelly); Part 5: Empire and Nation; 17: The Moral State (Peter van Der Veer); 18: The Policing of Tradition (Nicholas Dirks); 19: Partition and Violence (Shail Mayaram); 20: Is Khadi the Solution? (Emma Tarlo); Bibliographical Essay, Index