Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles

Saurabh Dube

ISBN 10: 0822333376 / ISBN 13: 9780822333371

Published by Duke University Press, 2004

About this Item

Probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. This book combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 illus., 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; GTB; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386. . 2004. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822333376
• ISBN 13: 9780822333371
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. Saurabh Dube combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Drawing on extensive archival research and innovative fieldwork as well as political economy and social theory—including considerations of gender—he unpacks the implications of specific Indian pasts from the middle of the nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth century.

Dube provides incisive accounts of the interactions between North American evangelical missionaries and Christian converts of central India, and between colonial legal systems and Indian popular laws. He reflects on the difficulties of history writing by considering the production and reception of recent Hindu nationalist histories. Assessing the work of the South Asian Subaltern Studies Collective, he offers substantial critical readings of major writings by Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, and others. Dube develops the concept and practice of a “history without warranty” as a means of rigorously rethinking categories such as modernity, colonialism, the West, the postcolonial, and the nation.

About the Author

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community.