Description: 1. Introduction: The subaltern as subaltern citizen Gyanendra Pandey Part 1: Equal but Separate? 2. Can there be a subaltern middle class? Gyanendra Pandey 3. Race, power, and multipositionality: Examples from the lives of black schoolteachers Earl Lewis 4. Recasting the women's question: the girl-child/woman in the colonial encounter Ruby Lal 5. Casual sex: towards a "prehistory" of gay life in Bohemian America Colin R. Johnson Part 2: Writing the Subaltern 6. The question of a pre-history Milind Wakankar 7. Writing ordinary lives M.S.S. Pandian 8. Subaltern city, subaltern citizens: New Orleans, urban identity, and people of African descent Leslie Harris 9. Culture/Politics: the double bind of the Indian adivasi Prathama Banerjee Part 3: The State and the People 10. Subordination, governance and the legislative state in early colonial India Sudipta Sen 11. Subaltern immigrants: Undocumented workers and national belonging in the United States Mary Odem 12. Could slaves enfranchise themselves? Rumours, narratives, and arenas of politics in the American South Steven Hahn 13. Democracy and subaltern citizens in India Partha Chatterjee 14. Afterword Jonathan Prude

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