Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History

Note on Contributors vi Representing the Musalman: Then and Now, Now and Then 1(35) Shahid Amin Refiguring the Fanatic: Malabar 1836--1922 36(42) M.T. Ansari A Practice of Prejudice: Gandhi's Politics of Friendship 78(21) Faisal Fatehali Devji The Anomaly of Kabir: Caste and Canonicity in Indian Modernity 99(41) Milind Wakankar Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition 140(48) Anupama Rao Framing Custom, Directing Practices: Authority, Property and Matriliny under Colonial Law in Nineteenth-century Malabar 188(36) Praveena Kodoth A Poetics of Resistance: Investigating the Rhetoric of the Bardic Historians of Rajasthan 224(56) Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar Renu Dube Reena Dube The Work of Imagination: Temporality and Nationhood in Colonial Bengal 280 Prathama Banerjee