Shail Mayaram is professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Her publications include Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins (2003); Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity (1997); co-authored with Ashis Nandy, Shikha Trivedi, Achyut Yagnik, Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and the Fear of Self (1995); co-edited with Ajay Skaria and M. S. S. Pandian, Subaltern Studies: Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History, vol. 12 (2005); edited, The Other Global City (2009).