Subaltern Studies No. 6 Subaltern Studies No. 8 Subaltern Studies No. 7
Writings on South Asian History and Society

Edited by Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. 272 p.

Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgement ix
Note on Contributors ix
1. The Imaginary Institution of India
Sudipta Kaviraj
1
2. A Religion of Urban Domesticity: Sri Ramakrishna and
the Calcutta Middle Class
Partha Chatterjee
40
3. Discipline and Mobilize
Ranajit Guha
69
4. Myths, Symbols and Community: Satnampanth
of Chhattisgarh
Saurabh Dube
121
5. The Slave of MS. H.6
Amitav Ghosh
159
6. Power, Religion and Community: The Matobo Case
Terence Ranger
221
7. Discussion -
'The State's Emissary: The Place of Law in
Subaltern Studies
Upendra Baxi
247
Index

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UPENDRA BAXI is Professor of Law, and Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi. His publications include Indian Supreme Court and Politics (Lucknow, 1980) and Liberty and Corruption: The Antulay Case and Beyond (Lucknow, 1989).

PARTHA CHATTERJEE is Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is the author of Bengal 1920-1947. The Land Question (1985) and Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986).

SAURABH DUBE is Lecturer in History at the University of Delhi. He has written a doctoral dissertation in History at Churchill College, Cambridge.

AMITAV GHOSH in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He has published research papers in anthropology and is the author of two novels, The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines.

RANAJIT GUHA is the author of A Rule of Property for Bengal (1963) and Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983), and has edited the first six volumes of Subaltern Studies.

SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ is attached to the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has written extensively on problems of political theory and Indian politics. He is writing a book on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay.

TERENCE RANGER is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and coauthor (with Eric Hobsbawm) of The Invention of Tradition.

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