Books in the Critical Histories series

"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

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.

"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

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