Subaltern studies reader 1986-1995

Contributor(s):

Guha, Ranajit

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 1997Description: xxii,303p. 24 cmISBN:

9780195652307

Uniform titles:

Subaltern studies.

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

954.03 22 SU-

Contents:

Introduction / Ranajit Guha -- 1. In Defense of the Fragment: Writing about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India Today / Gyanendra Pandey -- 2. Chandra's Death / Ranajit Guha -- 3. The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma / Gautam Bhadra -- 4. Origins and Transformations of the Devi / David Hardiman -- 5. The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge, and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India / David Arnold -- 6. Remembering Chauri Chaura: Notes from Historical Fieldwork / Shahid Amin -- 7. The Nation and Its Women / Partha Chatterjee -- 8. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts? / Dipesh Chakrabarty.

Summary: 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 - Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and others - were instrumental in establishing the discipline best known as postcolonial studies.Summary: 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 early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency to an engagement with the more complex processes of domination and subordination in a variety of the changing institutions and practices of evolving modernity.

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	954.03 SU- (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		122469

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 - Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and others - 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 early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency to an engagement with the more complex processes of domination and subordination in a variety of the changing institutions and practices of evolving modernity.

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