Colonial and Postcolonial Histories: comparative reflections on the legacies of empire

human development, culture

From little king to landlord: property, law and the gift under permanent settlement

This paper concerns the set of issues surrounding the imposition in south India of a Permanent Settlement in 1803 for the local "nobility" -- the "ancient zamindars and polygars." I focus here on the "little kings" themselves, their transformation into "landlords", and the implications of the new political economy for the old political logic in which law, property, and the state were linked in very different ways. I look in particular at the problems concerning "alienation" under the Permanent Settlement, the fact that landlords, in contravention of the principles of profit and management, continued to make gifts of land. I conclude by examining the implications of my narratives for a consideration of colonial state and society, with respect in particular to the praxis of culture and the discourse of law. I demonstrate that all colonial transformations were, for inherent structural reasons, incompletely realized

The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India

Also CSST Working Paper #11.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51136/1/368.pd

The Original Caste: Power, History, and Hierarchy in South Asia

Also CSST Working Paper #10.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51135/1/367.pd

The pasts of a Pālaiyakārar : the ethnohistory of a south Indian little king

This paper examines a text which is the family history of a line of south Indian "little kings," or pālaiyakārars. Beginning with a discussion of different modes of history, I analyze this text as both a statement of a particular history and a cultural representation of a more general modality of history. As a particular history, this text enables me to talk about conceptions of royal appropriateness and sovereignty, of political relations, and of kingly privileges; as a cultural form the text provides clues about the relations of these cultural conceptions to a structural form of narrative emplotment with all its underlying assumptions about time, causation, and process. Finally, I consider how a hermeneutical exercise of this sort is very important for Western analysts who wish to reconstruct the "history" of south Indian politics

Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact

Also CSST Working Paper #16.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51143/1/375.pd

Culture/Power/History: Series Prospectus

Also CSST Working Paper #23.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51154/1/386.pd

The current consensus on the clinical management of intracranial ependymoma and its distinct molecular variants

Multiple independent genomic profiling efforts have recently identified clinically and molecularly distinct subgroups of ependymoma arising from all three anatomic compartments of the central nervous system (supratentorial brain, posterior fossa, and spinal cord). These advances motivated a consensus meeting to discuss: (1) the utility of current histologic grading criteria, (2) the integration of molecular-based stratification schemes in future clinical trials for patients with ependymoma and (3) current therapy in the context of molecular subgroups. Discussion at the meeting generated a series of consensus statements and recommendations from the attendees, which comment on the prognostic evaluation and treatment decisions of patients with intracranial ependymoma (WHO Grade II/III) based on the knowledge of its molecular subgroups. The major consensus among attendees was reached that treatment decisions for ependymoma (outside of clinical trials) should not be based on grading (II vs III). Supratentorial and posterior fossa ependymomas are distinct diseases, although the impact on therapy is still evolving. Molecular subgrouping should be part of all clinical trials henceforth