Associate Professor of History

Department of History
463 Murray Krieger Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3275

tel: 949.824.1260
fax: 949.824.2865
email: vinayak@uci.edu

Fields of Interest:
Modern South Asia, Social and Intellectual History

Affiliate of the Critical Theory Emphasis Program, the Center for Asian Studies, and the International Studies Program.

Books:

Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India
(Berkeley: UC Press, 2007).  

Peasant Pasts: History, Politics and Nationalism in Gujarat
(New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008).

Editor, Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
(London & New York: Verso, 2000).

Articles:

“Peasants Against Gandhi: Rethinking Criminality and Nationalism in Colonial India,” Historische Anthropologie (Forthcoming 2008).

“V.D. Savarkar and the Uses of History” in Crispin Bates, ed., Perception, Narration and Reinvention: the Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising, (New Delhi: Sage Publishers, Forthcoming 2009).

“A Critical Theory of Subalternity: Rethinking Class in Indian Historiography,” Left History, volume 12, number 1 (2007), 9-28.

‘The Making of a Peasant King in Colonial Western India: The Case of Ranchod Vira’, Past and Present, number 192 (August 2006), 155-185.

‘Eine kritische Theorie der Subalternität: Überlegungen zur Verwendung des Klassenbegriffs in der indischen Geschichtsschreibung’, WerkstattGeschichte 41 (May 2006), 5-23.

‘Of Peasants and Publics in Colonial India: Daduram’s Story, 1906-1996’, Social History, volume 30, number 3 (2005), 296-320.

‘Vinayak & Me: Hindutva and the Politics of Naming’, Social History, volume 28, number 2 (2003), 155-73.

Courses:

Undergraduate:
The Making of Modern India
Nationalism in India
Histories of India
Colonial Power: India
Gandhi & Gandhism
Intellectual History: India

Graduate:
Subaltern Studies
Subaltern Effects
History & Theory

South Asia Forum