D Kumkum Sangari work towards modes of writing history and the history of representations where it is not the recovery of an indigenous self which is at stake, but rather the very formation of such notions of selfhood, and learn to counter it everywhere by the collective notion of selves which find their integrity not in the past but in what they may yet become. This issue is dedicated to Safdar Hashmi and Ram Bahadur. They were killed during the performance of a play which represented one such practical and desired collectivity—it was about the struggle to unionize workers. Their deaths are an im- 7 measurable loss. Numbers 17-18