Ajay Skaria is a scholar of

South Asian South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ...

Politics Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

and

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

and is associated with

Postcolonial Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic consequences of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and extractivism, exploitation of colonized pe ...

and Subaltern Studies. He is currently teaching at

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

in the Department of History. Skaria received his Masters in Medieval Indian History from

Maharaja Sayajirao University Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, formerly Baroda College, is a public university in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a public university on April 30, 1949 and was renamed after ...

and a PhD in History from

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...

in 1992.

Selected publications

*''Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India '', ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', 1997 *''Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India'',

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 1999, *"Women, Witchcraft and Gratuitous Violence in Colonial Western India" in ''Past & Present'' no. 155,

, 1997 *"Writing, Orality and Power: The Dangs, 1800s-1920s" in ''Subaltern Studies'' Volume 9, 1997 *"Some Aporias of History. Time, Truth and Play in Dangs, Gujarat" in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 34, no.15, April 10–16, 1999 *"Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance, 2016

References

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