Community, Gender and Violence

In its early phase, Subaltern Studiesdealt extensively with the issue of community and violence in the context of peasant uprisings. The present volume concentrates on gender and national politics and introduces a wide range of new issues raised by the relations between community, gender and violence.

Flavia Agnes is a lawyer-activist in Mumbai. Satish Deshpande is Fellow in Sociology at the Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi. Qadri Ismail is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Pradeep Jeganathan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Nivedita Menon is Lecturer in Politics at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. Aamir R. Mufti is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Michigan. Tejaswini Niranjana is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Culture and Society at Bangalore. David Scott is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.