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The twelfth volume of Subaltern Studies comprises essays broadly linked by an interest in the history of Muslims and Dalits in South Asia, or with the manner in which dominant histories in the subcontinent have been 'fabricated'. About Author : Shail Mayaram is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She is the author of Against History, Against State: Counterprespectives from the Margins (2003) and Resisting Regims: Myth, Memory and the Shapping of a Muslims Identity (1997). M.S.S. Pandian's publications include Image Trap: M.G. Ramachandran in Filsm and Politics (1992). Ajay Skaria teaches history at the University of Minneapolis. He is the author of Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (1999). Contents : Preface Note on Contributors Representing the Musalman: Thena dn Now, Now and Then Refiguring the Fanatic: Malabar 1836-1922 Pracitice of Prejudice: Gandhi's Politics of Friendship The Anomaly of Kabir: Caste and Canonicity in Indian Modernity Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition Framing Custom, Directing Practices: Authority,.Propertya dn Matriliny Under Colonial Law in Nineteenth-century Malabad A Poetic of Resistance: Investigating the Rhetoric of the Bardic Historians of Rajasthan The Work of Imagination: Temporality and Nationhood in Colonial Bengal