Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of English at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is the author of the much-acclaimed book Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature: Texts, Territories, Globalizations (2018). His works have appeared in some of the leading journals of our times: Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, Boundary 2, Modern Philology, Interventions, Postcolonial Studies, among others. Prathama Banerjee is a historian and a political theorist. She studies the career of political ideas and concepts in India – as they emerge in the cusp of philosophy, religion, history, and literature and across the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. She has recently published Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South. Her earlier work was on the Politics of Time, in which she looked at the emergence of the modern discipline of history in colonial Bengal from an encounter with 'peoples without history' – tribes, aborigines, primitives.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction Prathama Banerjee and Baidik Bhattacharya; 1. History Wars Prathama Banerjee; 2. Economic Knowledge and the 'Indian' Economy Aashish Velkar; 3. State, Democracy, and Modernity in Postcolonial India Garima Dabhai; 4. The Curious Case of 'Indian' Literature Baidik Bhattacharya; 5. Unschooled Knowledge from Ancestral Spirits Bhrigupati Singh; 6. Documenting the Self Udaya Kumar; 7. Feminism at the Crossroads? Mallarika Sinha Roy; 8. Dalit Studies and the Life of the Mind Ankit Kawade; 9. 'Heathen' to Vishwa-Guru Varuni Bhatia; 10. Past Politics and Future Environments Rohan D'Souza; 11. India in Film Studies Ravi Vasudevan; About the Contributors; Index.

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