In his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the ancestral right of the colonizer to rule. 1 The a…
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The British colonial administration in India transformed Muslim law in the nineteenth century through the three concurrent processes of translation, legislation, and adjudication. Although Indian Muslims were gradually displaced in their traditional position as interpreters of t…
Sayyid Qutb is often rendered as a backward looking, anti-modern figure. This portrayal suggests a serious misunderstanding of his theory of history and, by extension, the relationship between the foundational sources of Islam and the life of the Muslim community. In broader ter…
This dissertation examines South Asia during the colonial period from the vantage-point of a polity that was never formally colonized--the Muslim-ruled Princely State of Hyderabad. The chapters highlight the complexity of the relationship between Muslim sovereignty and the colon…
This dissertation examines the relationships between citizenship and sexuality and gender in imperial formations, through an archaeology/genealogy of the subject position of those classified as the hijra. Combining Lacan's symbolic order with Foucault's historic a priori in orde…
Empire is not a supreme entity controlling high-level policies in metropolises: it is a reality translated into the daily lives of the subalterns at the periphery of the periphery of empire, as this microhistory of Qina province during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries arg…