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The purpose of this essay is to introduce C.A. Bayly’s ‘The Spirits of Europe and India’s Twentieth Century’, a paper that was written in 2011 for a workshop at Stanford University titled ‘Civility at the Limit of the Political’. The paper was circulated to the workshop participants and discussed, but it was largely forgotten. The following year Bayly’s Recovering Liberties (2012) was published as part of Cambridge University Press’ ‘Ideas in Context’ series, and I am assuming that his priority was elsewhere—and for good reason. He had once told me that he normally gave himself a day or two to recover after finishing a book before embarking on his next project. He explained that it was often difficult to start writing after taking a break, so the best thing to do was continue writing. I doubt that this was the full story, especially as anyone who knew Bayly’s work patterns also knew that he was involved in multiple writing projects at the same time. At one point I had asked him how many books he had researched or planned. He said my question was a difficult one but reflected that the most accurate answer was four. He added a caveat that he was also preparing for projects in what he anticipated were going to be his ‘declining years’ in which he could sit in his room in St. Catherine’s College or at the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge without having to travel to archives. On 18 April 2015, Bayly died in Chicago, where he held the Vivekananda Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago.
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This paper provides an interpretation of the Bengali Intellectuals Oral History Project as a new archive for studying the intellectual history of South Asia. It explains that an important outcome of the nexus between oral history and intellectual history is the construction of an ‘unintended autobiography’ of each subject interviewed in the project. By considering the centrality of autobiography, the paper offers insights into rethinking the methodological approaches to writing the intellectual history of South Asia. Finally, it provides a reading of Partha Chatterjee’s seminal writings, along with his oral history, as a way to consider the convergence of autobiography with political thought.
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108994
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This paper considers the participation and initiation of communities once classified as criminal tribes in the violence in Gujarat in 2002. Given that their descendants continue to suffer politically and economically in post-colonial India, it is necessary to examine the role of the marginalised and subordinate communities in the making of Hindutva in the twenty-first century. Building upon debates on violence in post-colonial societies, the paper examines the historical contexts for why victims often become killers in genocide. More specifically, it provides an analysis of one specific community of poor, low-caste peasants, the Dharalas, who participated in the violence against Muslims in Gujarat. The paper also examines the limits of historical methodology for the writing of histories of violence from 'below'.
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