Badri Narayan is a social historian and cultural anthropologist and currently lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. His interests lie in popular culture, social and anthropological history, Dalit and subaltern issues and the relationship between power and culture. He has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1998 99). The Indian Council of Social Science Research (1995) and the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (1989 93). He has also been Visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies...