Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de MÉxico in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community.

“Modernity has defined itself against enchantment, yet continually produced new enchantments. Saurabh Dube helpfully establishes this pattern, and especially sheds light on the ways in which colonial and postcolonial power relationships are interwoven with spiritual meanings. He rightly and persuasively brings such apparently marginal actors as evangelical missionaries and native Indian Christians onto center stage, and he does so with grace, lucidity, and insight.”-Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council “Saurabh Dube’s book will make a signal contribution to the political and theoretical legacy of South Asian subaltern studies. Based at the Colegio de MÉxico and in conversation with scholars and intellectuals based in Latin America, Dube has written a book that will enhance the dialogue between Latin American critical social thought and subaltern studies already underway. Historically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, Stitches on Time conveys the feeling of a new gaze in the tradition of subaltern studies, an awareness of a daily life out of place in relation to the subject of scholarly pursuit.”-Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

• Abbreviations ixPreface xiIntroduction 1Colonial Textures 1 Traveling Light 31 2 Evangelical Entanglements 523 Telling Tales 764 Entitlements and Enmities 103Postcolonial Tangles 5 Subaltern Subjects 1296 Pilgrims’ Progress 1647 The Enchanted and the Modern 177Afterword 187Notes 191Glossary 231Bibliography 233Index 255

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de MÉxico in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community.

“Modernity has defined itself against enchantment, yet continually produced new enchantments. Saurabh Dube helpfully establishes this pattern, and especially sheds light on the ways in which colonial and postcolonial power relationships are interwoven with spiritual meanings. He rightly and persuasively brings such apparently marginal actors as evangelical missionaries and native Indian Christians onto center stage, and he does so with grace, lucidity, and insight.”-Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council “Saurabh Dube’s book will make a signal contribution to the political and theoretical legacy of South Asian subaltern studies. Based at the Colegio de MÉxico and in conversation with scholars and intellectuals based in Latin America, Dube has written a book that will enhance the dialogue between Latin American critical social thought and subaltern studies already underway. Historically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, Stitches on Time conveys the feeling of a new gaze in the tradition of subaltern studies, an awareness of a daily life out of place in relation to the subject of scholarly pursuit.”-Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

• Abbreviations ixPreface xiIntroduction 1Colonial Textures 1 Traveling Light 31 2 Evangelical Entanglements 523 Telling Tales 764 Entitlements and Enmities 103Postcolonial Tangles 5 Subaltern Subjects 1296 Pilgrims’ Progress 1647 The Enchanted and the Modern 177Afterword 187Notes 191Glossary 231Bibliography 233Index 255

Saurabh Dube is Professor of History in the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de MÉxico in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity, and Power among a Central Indian Community.

“Modernity has defined itself against enchantment, yet continually produced new enchantments. Saurabh Dube helpfully establishes this pattern, and especially sheds light on the ways in which colonial and postcolonial power relationships are interwoven with spiritual meanings. He rightly and persuasively brings such apparently marginal actors as evangelical missionaries and native Indian Christians onto center stage, and he does so with grace, lucidity, and insight.”-Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council “Saurabh Dube’s book will make a signal contribution to the political and theoretical legacy of South Asian subaltern studies. Based at the Colegio de MÉxico and in conversation with scholars and intellectuals based in Latin America, Dube has written a book that will enhance the dialogue between Latin American critical social thought and subaltern studies already underway. Historically grounded and theoretically sophisticated, Stitches on Time conveys the feeling of a new gaze in the tradition of subaltern studies, an awareness of a daily life out of place in relation to the subject of scholarly pursuit.”-Walter D. Mignolo, Duke University

• Abbreviations ixPreface xiIntroduction 1Colonial Textures 1 Traveling Light 31 2 Evangelical Entanglements 523 Telling Tales 764 Entitlements and Enmities 103Postcolonial Tangles 5 Subaltern Subjects 1296 Pilgrims’ Progress 1647 The Enchanted and the Modern 177Afterword 187Notes 191Glossary 231Bibliography 233Index 255