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 spriritual 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 -- craid calhoun, president, social science research council saurabh dubes book will make a signal contribution to the political and theoretical legacy of south asian subaltern studies based at he colegio de mexico and in conversation with scholars and intellectuals based in latin america, dubes book 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 felling 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 destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, stitches on time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference saurabh dube combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography drawing on extensive archival research and innovative fieldwork as well as political economy and social theory--including considerations of subaltern studies collective, he offers substantial critical readings of major writings by ranajit guha, dipesh chakrabarty, partha chatterjee, and others