Muslims, Dalits, and the Fabrications of History

Note on Contributors vi 1 SHAHID AMIN Representing the Musalman: Then and Now, Now and Then 1(35) 2 M.T. ANSARI Refiguring the Fanatic: Malabar 1836-1922 36(42) 3 FAISAL FATEHALI DEVJI A Practice of Prejudice: Gandhi's Politics of Friendship 78(21) 4 MILIND WAKANKAR The Anomaly of Kabir: Caste and Canonicity in Indian Modernity 99(41) 5 ANUPAMA RAO Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition 140(48) 6 PRAVEENA KODOTH Framing Custom, Directing Practices: Authority, Property and Matriliny under Colonial Law in Nineteenth-century Malabar 188(36) 7 RASHMI DUBE BHATNAGAR, RENU DUBE AND REENA DUBE A Poetics of Resistance: Investigating the Rhetoric of the Bardic Historians of Rajasthan 224(56) 8 PRATHAMA BANERJEE The Work of Imagination: Temporality and Nationhood in Colonial Bengal 280