"This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything and nothing."--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan"The essays contribute to a wide range of debates and issues in Asian studies - broadly interpretative and specifically detailed - that demand attention, if not agreement, from scholars in many disciplines.They offer not only new readings but, crucially, new ways of reading and understanding texts and the history of practices in South Asia. I recommend the book.as a demanding yet stimulating contribution."--Ian Kerr, University of Manitoba for History"This volume is an important, groundbreaking work challenging how we read and understand texts. This is must reading for those engaged in the struggle to understand the deeper past or disheartened by radical deconstruction of texts to the point that signifiers 'float,' meaning everything and nothing.

"--Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan.