Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose work combines history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 and anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

, archival and field research, and subaltern studies

Subaltern Studies

The Subaltern Studies Group or Subaltern Studies Collective are a group of South Asian scholars interested in the postcolonial and post-imperial societies of South Asia in particular and the developing world in general. The term Subaltern Studies is sometimes also applied more broadly to others...

 and postcolonial perspectives. After teaching at the University of Delhi

University of Delhi

The University of Delhi is a central university situated in Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. Established in 1922, it offers courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. Vice-President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari is the Chancellor of the university...

, since 1995 he is Professor of History at the Center of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México

El Colegio de México, A.C. is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities...

 in Mexico City.

Biographical

Dube was born to anthropologist parents, S.C. Dube and Leela Dube. He received the BA (Honours) and MA degrees in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi; an MPhil (1988) from the University of Delhi; and a PhD (1992) from the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. Dube has held visiting professorships several times at institutions such as the Cornell University

Cornell University

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 and the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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. He has also been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...

, New York. He is married to fellow cultural historian, Ishita Banerjee.

Work

Dube’s research explores questions of colonialism

Colonialism

Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. It is a process whereby the metropole claims sovereignty over the colony and the social structure, government, and economics of the colony are changed by...

 and modernity

Modernity

Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance...

, law and legalities, caste

Caste

Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation and political power. It should not be confused with race or social class, e.g. members of different castes in one society may belong to the same race, as in India...

and community, evangelization and empire, and popular religion and subaltern art. Apart from more than eighty journal articles and book chapters, his authored books include Untouchable Pasts (State University of New York Press, 1998; reprint Sage, 2001); Stitches on Time (Duke University Press and OUP, 2004); After Conversion (Yoda Press, 2009); as well as a quartet in historical anthropology in the Spanish language comprising, Sujetos subalternos (2001), Genealogías del presente (2003), Historias esparcidas (2007), and Historia y modernidad (forthcoming), published by El Colegio de México. Among Dube’s dozen edited and co-edited volumes are Postcolonial Passages (OUP, 2004); Historical Anthropology (OUP, 2007); Enchantments of Modernity (Routledge, 2009); and Ancient to Modern (OUP, 2009).

External links

• http://ceaa.colmex.mx/profesores/paginadube/dubeindex.htm
• http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/sujetos/sujetos.html
• http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/101/4/729.pdf
• http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/557/55703718.pdf
• http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=23033&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=8443
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_2007
• http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/cultura/53049.html
• http://www.gf.org/fellows/3850-saurabh-dube