Ajay Skaria Explained

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, ^[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]}

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=OMOFbOmQm-UC&pg=PR15 Chaturvedi, V. Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
2. http://www.hist.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=skari002 Faculty Profile | Department of History, University of Minnesota
3. Web site: Ajay Skaria . 2022-10-26 . College of Liberal Arts . en.
4. Skaria . Ajay . 1997 . Shades of Wildness Tribe, Caste, and Gender in Western India . The Journal of Asian Studies . 56 . 3 . 726–745 . 10.2307/2659607 . 2659607 . 0021-9118.
5. Skaria . Ajay . 1999 . Some Aporias of History: Time, Truth and Play in Dangs, Gujarat . Economic and Political Weekly . 34 . 15 . 897–904 . 4407847 . 0012-9976.
6. News: The Religion of Gandhi: A Conversation About Satyagraha With Ajay Skaria . 2022-10-26.