Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose work combines history and anthropology, archival and field research, subaltern studies and postcolonial-decolonial perspectives, and social theory and critical thought.

After teaching at the University of Delhi, since 1995 he is Professor of History – elected to the Distinguished Category of Professor-Researcher in 2009 – at the Centre of Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México in Mexico City.

Kosambi [Visiting] Research Professorship in Interdisciplinary Studies (2017-2019) of Goa University in India, a Chair previously held by Romila Thapar, Sudhir Kakar, Madhav Gadgil, and Shahid Amin.

[14][15][16][17][18][19][20] It has been argued that while offering broad "conceptual reflection on, and an extended dialogue with, the vast critical scholarship on modernity that the fields of postcolonial theory, history, and anthropology have yielded …Dube builds on this corpus of writings and further probes them",[21] making an especially "original contribution" through his "deliberations on the productions of time and space by various subjects".

A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies” (Dipesh Chakrabarty).

[26] The work has also been appreciated as modelling “a form of critical scholarship that is generous in its engagement with the work of its interlocutors even as it pushes against the latest clichés to chart new directions” (Mrinalini Sinha); as elaborating "a meditation of unusual insight and critical value" concerning modernity and its subjects (Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff); and as articulating "a challenging break with frameworks that for too long have carried colonialism's intellectual heritage forward even after its political demise" (Michael Herzfeld).

[27][28] Dube’s research explores questions of colonialism and modernity, law and legalities, caste and community, evangelization and empire, and popular religion and subaltern art.