Ajay Skaria

skari002@umn.edu

612-624-7565

History

924 Heller Hall

271 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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History

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D: History, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1992 -
M.A.: Medieval Indian History, Maharaja Sayajirao University, 1988 -

Specialties

postcolonial studies/theory
intellectual history
19th and 20th c adivasi religious movements
democracies and minorities
19th and 20th Century Hinduism
19th and 20th caste politics
Gandhi
Ambedkar

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Publications

(1998). Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Shail Mayaram, M.S.S. Pandian, Ajay Skaria (eds.) (2005). Subaltern Studies, Vol. XII. Delhi: Permanent Black.
(2011). Relinquishing Republican Democracy: Gandhi’s Ramarajya’ . Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 203-229.
(2010). “˜The strange violence of satyagraha: Gandhi, Itihaas, and History’, in Manu Bhagavan (ed.). Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia, .
(2010). Living by Dying’, in Anand Pandian and Daud Ali (eds.), . Genealogies of Virtue: Ethical Practice in South Asia,.
(2009). “˜The project of provincializing Europe: Reading Dipesh Chakrabarty’. Economic and Political Weekly, , Vol. 44, No. 14..
(2009). ““˜No politics without religion:’ of secularism and Gandhi“, in Vinay Lal (ed.),. Political Hinduism: The religious imagination in public spheres.
“˜Only one word, properly altered: Gandhi and the question of the prostitute, Economic and Poltiical Weekly, December 10, 2006; Reprinted (2007) in Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2; Reprint (2007) in Debjani Ganguly and John Docker (eds.) Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality:Global Perspectives, London: Routledge, New Delhi: Orient Longman; Reprinted (2011) in Ghanshyam Shah (ed.), Rereading Hind Swaraj: Modernity and the Subalterns, New Delhi: Routledge.
Skaria, Ajay (2002) `Gandhi’s politics: liberalism and the question of the ashram, South Atlantic Quarterly, 101:4, Fall 2002; Reprint (2009) in Saurabh Dube (ed.) Enchantments of Modernity, Routledge, Dehi, London; Reprint (2011) in M.T. Ansari and Deeptha Achar (eds.), Discourse, Democracy and Difference - Perspectives on Community Politics and Culture, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi;
(1996). Writing, orality and power in the Dangs, Western India, 1800s-1920s,“ in Dipesh Chakrabarty and Shahid Amin (eds.),. Subaltern Studies, Vol. IX.
(2014). "Gandhi's Radical Conservatism". Seminar, 662 (October) .
(2014). "Questions of Hurt: On the Wendy Doniger Controversy". Economic and Political Weekly, , Vol - XLIX No. 40, October 04.
(2014 ). "'Can the Dalit articulate a universal position?': the intellectual, the social, and the writing of history". Social History, , Vol. 30, Issue 3.
(2016, in press). Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance. University of Mnnesota Press.
(2015). "Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question". ,South Asia, Vol. 38, no. 3, September.
(2015). "Remembering Chris Bayly". Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L, no. 21 (May 23).