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]