Ranajit Guha
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The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, was begun with the goal of developing a new critique of both colonialist and nationalist perspectives in the historiography of colonized countries. Its most famous members were instrumental in establishing the discipline best known as postcolonial studies. A selection of the definitive and most influential work from the collective's eponymous journal, these essays chart the course of subaltern history from an ...
The aim of this collection of essays, the first of a series, is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern Themes in the field of South Asian Studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributions encompass history, politics, economics, and sociology; attitudes, ideologies and belief systems. While the range is wide, the essays share a common orientation as ...
The eight essays here are addressed to a wide range of topics extending in time from the Mughal period to the nineteen-seventies, and in theme from communalism to industrial labour. Taken together, they touch on important aspects of the subaltern condition, material as well as spiritual, past as well as present. The essays are held together by a common emphasis on the primary of the subaltern as the subject of historical and sociological inquiry. In this volume ...
The aim of this collection of essays, is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern Themes in the field of South Asian Studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributions encompass history, politics, economics, and sociology; attitudes, ideologies and belief systems. While the range is wide, the essays share a common orientation as well as a concern for ...
The aim of this collection of essays, is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern Themes in the field of South Asian Studies, and thus help to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much research and academic work in this particular area. The contributions encompass history, politics, economics, and sociology; attitudes, ideologies and belief systems. While the range is wide, the essays share a common orientation as well as a concern for ...
The fifth volume of Subaltern Studies comprises five essays and two discussion pieces on the Subaltern project. In his study of the Bhils and Shaukars of eastern Gujarat David Hardiman analyses the close economic relationship that existed between these two communities. David Arnold’s essay on the Indian plague over 1896-1900 shows the complex interplay of coercion and co-operation, resistance and hegemony, class and race, in the colonial situation.
The categories of domination and subordination, briefly enunciated by Ranajit Guha in the first volume of this series, are more comprehensively explored by his long essay in this volume. His contribution also offers a critique of new-colonialist and liberal historiography. Sumit Sarkar’s essay uses a village scandal in early-twentieth-century Bengal as an entry point to analyse the wider contexts of society and mentality. Gautam Bhadra looks at the delicate ...