Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

'Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of "history from below". Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upon an eclectic group of thinkers that included Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. This book provides a comprehensive balance sheet of the project and its developments, including Ranajit Guha’s original subaltern studies manifesto, Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak.' - from back cover.

Includes select bibliography.

Alternative title

Mapping Series

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Verso (London, United Kingdom)

editor

Vinayak CHATURVEDI

Location code

REF.CHV

Language

English

Keyword

critical theory, South Asia, history, postcolonialism

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

364

ISBN / ISSN

9781844676378

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India - Ranajit GUHA

The Nation and Its Peasants - Partha CHATTERJEE

Gramsci and Peasant Subalterniry in India - David ARNOLD

'The Making of the Working Class': E. P. Thompson and Indian History - Rajnarayan CHANDAVARKAR

Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia - Rosalind O'HANLON

Rallying around the Subaltern - Christopher Alan BAYLY

Moral Economists, Subalterns, New Social Movements and the (Re-) Emergence of a (Post-) Modernised (Middle) Peasant - Tom BRASS

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography - Gyan PRAKASH

After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism and Politics in the Thrid World - Rosalind O'HANLON, David WASHBROOK

Can the 'Subaltern' Ride? A Reply to O'Hanlon and Washbrook - Gyan PRAKASH

Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writing of Modern Indian History - Sumit SARKAR

Radical Histories and Question of Enlightenment Rationalism: Some Recent Critiques of Subaltern Studies - Dipesh CHAKRABARTY

Voices from the Edge: The Struggle to Write Subaltern Histories - Gyanendra PANDEY

The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies - Sumit SARKAR

The New Subaltern: A Silent Interview - Gayatri CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

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South Asia