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Using the jute mills of Calcutta as a case study, this book reveals that these interconnections play a fundamental role in shaping both the political actions of workers and the representation of their interests.

Analyzes Indian cultural histories written between 1870 and the present. Focuses on English-language texts by Bengali historians on the subject of literature and culture, and compares Indian writing on cultural heritage to the dominant forms of European historiography prevalent during the colonial period.

"This brilliant book, meticulously researched in the history of subnationalism and cultural politics in northeast India, is the best critique of general theories of agonistic democracy that I have encountered."-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Historians, by relying on biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.

"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working... It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."-Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute