Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience.

Gyanendra Pandey is Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University, USA, and is the series editor of the Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories book series at Routledge. He is one of the leading theorists and originators of the subaltern studies approach and has published widely in the field of colonial and postcolonial studies.

1. Introduction: The Difference of Subalternity Gyanendra Pandey Part 1: Gender, sexuality and the regime of modernity 2. 'At Risk': Gender, Sexuality and Epidemic Logic Dilip K. Das 3. 'Homosexuals from Haystacks': Gay Liberation and the Specter of a Queer Majority in Rural California, circa 1970 Colin Johnson 4. Different Speakers, Different Loves: Female Urbanity in Rekhti Poetry Ruth VanitaPart 2: The politics of belonging 5. Roots of the Oriental Quarter in early 19th Century London Michael H. Fisher 6. Indigenous Immigrants, Religion and the Struggle for Belonging in the United States Mary E. Odem7. All Strom's Children: Gender, Race, and Memory in the 20th Century American South Joseph Crespino Part 3: Revisiting liberalism 8. Thinking Equality: debates in Bengal, c.1870-1940 Prathama Banerjee9. Mestizo Mainstream: Reaffirmations of Natural Citizenship in Ecuador Christopher Krupa10. Viola's Story: Re-locating Difference Gyanendra Pandey