Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins

Shail Mayaram

Paper, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12731-8
$30.00 / £17.50

November, 2003
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12730-1
$80.50 / £47.50

1. Introduction

2. The Making of Meo Marginality

3. Anti-State: The Pal Polity

4. Towards a Critique of Indo-Persion Historiography

5. Imperial State Formation and Resistance

6. The Construction of Meo Criminality: Towards a Critique of Colonial Ethnography

7. Crime, Feud and Resistance in Early Nineteenth Century Mewat

8. The Prose and Verse of Rebellion: the Gadar of 1857

9. Kings, Peasants and Bandits

10. Conclusions

Related Subjects

• South Asian Studies

Series

• Cultures of History

About the Author

Shail Mayaram is a visiting senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India, and a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Jaipur, India. She is the author of Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity, the co-author of Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanambhumi Movement and the Fear of Self, and a member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective.

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