Table of Contents

Plates; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction: History and the Present; 2. On Retelling the Muslim Conquest of North India; 3. Mythicising the White Man: Colonialism and Fantasy; 4. The Edangered Yakshi: Careers of an Ancient Art Object; 5. Genealogy, History and the Law: The Case of the Rajamala; 6. Village Histories: Coalescing the Past and Present; 7. The Two Pasts of Nasser's Peasants: Political Memories and Everyday Life in an Egyptian Village; 8. Writing the Riot: Between the Historiography and Ethnography of Communal Violence in India; 9. Re-Presenting Pasts: Santals in Nineteenth-Century Bengal; Notes