Shahid Amin

Shahid Amin, Professor of History at Delhi University and a founding editor of the Subaltern Studies series, has held visiting fellowships at Stanford, Princeton, and Berlin. In Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922–1992, winner of the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 1997, he investigates a 1922 incident in which villagers burned a police station and killed constables — prompting Gandhi to call off the Non-Cooperation Movement — and traces how that event has been remembered, interpreted, and deployed as a metaphor for the Indian independence struggle across seven decades.