Homi Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse” (pp. 85-92) and “Articulating the Archaic: Cultural Difference and Colonial Nonsense” (pp. 123-138) in The Location of Culture, 1994.

Arjun Appadurai, “The Production of Locality” (pp. 178-199) in Modernity at Large, 1996.

Rustom Bharucha, “Politics of Culturalisms in an Age of Globalisation: Discrimination, Discontent and Dialogue” (10 pages) from Economic and Political Weekly, February 20-26, 1999.

Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Time of History and the Times of Gods” (pp. 35-60) in Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd, eds., The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997).

Ashis Nandy, “History’s Forgotten Doubles” (pp. 44-66) in History and Theory 34:2 (1995).

Sheldon Pollack, “Deep Orientalism? Notes on Sanskrit and Power beyond the Raj” (pp. 76-133) in Carol Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer, eds., Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament (1994).

Jonathan Spencer, “Occidentalism in the East: The Uses of the West in the Politics and Anthropology of South Asia” in James Carrier, ed., Occidentalism: Images of the West (1995).

Frederique Apffel-Marglin, “Secularism, unicity and diversity: The case of Haracandi’s grove,” Contributions to Indian Sociology 32, 2: 1998 pp. 217-235.

Paul R. Brass, “Secularism out of its place,” Contributions to Indian Sociology 32, 2: 1998 pp. 485-505.

Tapati Guha-Thakurta, “Archaeology as Evidence: Looking Back from the Ayodhya Debate,” Calcutta, 1997: 35 pp.

Tapati Guha-Thakurta, “Tales of the Bharhut Stupa: Archaeology in the Colonial and Nationalist Imaginations,” in G.H.R. Tillotson, ed., Paradigms of Indian Architecture: Space and Time in Representation and Design. Surrey, 1998: 26-58.

Christopher Pinney, “Indian Magical Realism: Notes on Popular Visual Culture,” Subaltern Studies X, 1999: 201-233.

Vivek Dhareshwar, “The Trial of the Pagans,” 16 pp., 1996 (a critique, and a little more, of S.N. Balagangadhara’s The Heathen in His Blindness....)

Vivek Dhareshwar, “Valorizing the Present: Orientalism, Postcoloniality and the Human Sciences,” 20 pp., 1998.

S.N. Balagangadhara, “The Future of the Present: Thinking through Orientalism,” 20 pp., 1998.

M. Madhava Prasad, “Back to the Present,” 8 pp., 1998.

All four of these articles were published in the journal Cultural Dynamics, the last three of them in a special issue on “India: Theorizing the Present.”

Gloria Raheja, “The Ajaib-Gher and the Gun Zam-Zammah: Colonial Ethnography and the Elusive Politics of ‘Tradition’ in the Literature of the Survey of India,” South Asia Research, 19(1):29-51, 1999.

Three chapters from Mary Searle-Chatterjee and Ursula Sharma, eds., Contextualizing Caste: Post-Dumontian Approaches, 1994:

Sheldon Pollock, “Ramayana and Political Imagination in India,” The Journal of Asian Studies, 52:261-97 May 1993.

Sheldon Pollock, “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History,” Public Culture, 12,3:591-626 Fall 2000.

Barbara Metcalf, "What Happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's 'Labbaik'" from Robert Fokenflik, ed., The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation (Stanford U. Press, 1993): 149-167.

Barbara Metcalf, “Narrating Lives: A Mughal Empress, A French Nabob, A Nationalist Muslim Intellectual [Book review]", Journal of Asian Studies, 1995, 54(2): 474-480.

Thomas R. Metcalf, "Sikh Recruitment for Colonial Military and Police Forces, 1870-1920." (unpublished draft).

Thomas R. Metcalf, "Empire Recentered: India in the Indian Ocean Arena," in G. Blue, M. Bunton, and R. Croizier., eds., Colonialism and the Modern World: Selected Studies (M.E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. 25-39.

Peabody, Norbert, 2001. "Cents, Sense, Census: Human Inventories in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial India" Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43:4, 819-850.

Wagoner, Phillip. 2003. "Precolonial Intellectuals and the Production of Colonial Knowledge" Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45:4, 783-814.

Peterson, Indira V., "Speaking in Tongues: The Cultural Discourses of Literary Multilingualism in Eighteenth-century India," ms.

Peterson, Indira V., "The Lady in Love and the Fortune-teller from the Hills: Discourses of Gender, Class, and Desire in Kuravanci Dance-dramas of 18th century South India," ms.

Selected poems from Coral Island (1946-1956) by Niranjan Bhagat, translated by Suguna Ramanathan and Rita Kothari, Gujarat Sahitya Academy (Gandhinagar: 2002):  “Bombay City,” “Adhunik Aranya: A Modern Forest,” “At the Museum (on seeing a lion),” “At the Zoo (on seeing a lion),” “At the Aerodrome,” “In the Cafe,” “Falkland Road,” “Flora Fountain,” “Colaba: Evening,” “Apollo Bunder: Moonrise,” “Patro: Characters,” “Gayatri.”
Selected short stories from Speech and Silence: Literary Journeys by Gujarati Women, translated by Rita Kothari, Zubaan (an imprint of Kali for Women; New Delhi: 2006):  “The Jungle of Words” by Dhiruben Patel; “Indubhai” by Anjali Khandwalla; “Kalapani” by Mona Patrawalla; “The Stairs” by Chandra Shrimali; “Entries from Mira Yagnik’s Diary” by Bindu Bhatt.

Uday Singh Mehta, "Experience and Unfamiliarity,"  from Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought, (U. of Chicago Press: 1999) pp. 190-217

Akeel Bilgrami “Occidentalism, the Very Idea: An Essay on the Enlightenment and Enchantment,” Economic and Political Weekly, August 19, 2006: 3591-3603.

Bruce Robbins, "Not Without Reason: A Response to Akeel Bilgrami," unpublished ms. 2006.

Akeel Bilgrami, "Reply to Bruce Robbins," unpublished ms. 2006.

Elizabeth Hamilton, Translation of the letters of a Hindoo Rajah; written previous to, and during the period of his residence in England. To which is prefixed a preliminary dissertation on the history, religion, and manners, of the Hindoos. London, 1796 ed., “Preliminary Dissertation” and “Letter XIV,” Vol. I, pp. i-lx; Vol II, pp. 168-183.  Reading additional letters, especially I, IV, X, and XIII, is encouraged.  The text is available online through Mirlyn.

Srinivas Aravamudan, Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language (Princeton University Press, 2005), “Introduction,” “The Hindu Sublime, or Nuclearism Rendered Cultural” (Chapter 4), and “Afterword,” pp. 1-25, 142-183, 265-269.

R. K. Narayan, “Lawley Road” and “Seventh House” in A Town Called Malgudi, ed. by S. Krishnan (Viking, 1999),  pp. 397-403; 624-634.  Dr. Ludmila Volna (Charles University, Prague) will make an informal presentation.

Anand Pandian, "Devoted to Development: Moral Progress, Ethical Work, and Divine Favor in South India"

Anand Pandian, "Tradition in Fragments: History, Form, and Fracture in the Ethics of South India"