Ajay Skaria

Ajay Skaria is a scholar of South Asian Politics and History and is associated with Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies.^[1] He is currently teaching at University of Minnesota in the Department of History.^[2]

Skaria received his Masters in Medieval Indian History from Maharaja Sayajirao University and a PhD in History from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1992.^[3]

Selected publications

• Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India , The Journal of Asian Studies, 1997^[4]
• Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India, Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-564310-0^[3]
• "Women, Witchcraft and Gratuitous Violence in Colonial Western India" in Past & Present no. 155, Oxford University Press, 1997 ^[3]
• "Writing, Orality and Power: The Dangs, 1800s-1920s" in Subaltern Studies Volume 9, 1997 ^[3]
• "Some Aporias of History. Time, Truth and Play in Dangs, Gujarat" in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 34, no.15, April 10–16, 1999 ^[3][5]
• "Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance, 2016^[3][6]

References

1. Chaturvedi, V. Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (New York: Verso, 2000), p. XV, ISBN 1-85984-214-3
2. Faculty Profile | Department of History, University of Minnesota
3. "Ajay Skaria". College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
4. Skaria, Ajay (1997). "Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India". The Journal of Asian Studies. 56 (3): 726–745. doi:10.2307/2659607. ISSN 0021-9118. JSTOR 2659607.
5. Skaria, Ajay (1999). "Some Aporias of History: Time, Truth and Play in Dangs, Gujarat". Economic and Political Weekly. 34 (15): 897–904. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 4407847.
6. "The Religion of Gandhi: A Conversation About Satyagraha With Ajay Skaria". Retrieved 2022-10-26.