Saurabh Dube

Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose work combines history and anthropology, archival and field research, and subaltern studies and postcolonial perspectives. After teaching at the University of Delhi, since 1995 he is Professor of History at the Center of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City.^[1]

Biographical

Dube was born to anthropologist parents, S.C. Dube and Leela Dube. He received the BA (Honours) and MA degrees in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi; an MPhil (1988) from the University of Delhi; and a PhD (1992) from the University of Cambridge. Dube has held visiting professorships several times at institutions such as the Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. He has also been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York.^[2] He is married to fellow cultural historian, Ishita Banerjee.

Work

Dube’s research explores questions of colonialism and modernity, law and legalities, caste and community, evangelization and empire, and popular religion and subaltern art. Apart from more than eighty journal articles and book chapters, his authored books include Untouchable Pasts (State University of New York Press, 1998; reprint Sage, 2001); Stitches on Time (Duke University Press and OUP, 2004); After Conversion (Yoda Press, 2009); as well as a quartet in historical anthropology in the Spanish language comprising, Sujetos subalternos (2001),^[3] Genealogías del presente (2003), Historias esparcidas (2007), and Historia y modernidad (forthcoming), published by El Colegio de México. Among Dube’s dozen edited and co-edited volumes are Postcolonial Passages (OUP, 2004); Historical Anthropology (OUP, 2007); Enchantments of Modernity (Routledge, 2009); and Ancient to Modern (OUP, 2009).

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