Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi

ISBN 10: 8131607461 / ISBN 13: 9788131607466

Published by Rawat Publications, 2015

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Contents: Introduction. 1. On some aspects of the historiography of colonial India/Ranajit Guha. 2. The nation and its peasants/Partha Chatterjee. 3. Gramsci and peasant subalternity in India/David Arnold. 4. The making of the working class: E.P. Thompson and Indian history/Rajnarayan Chandravarkar. 5. Recovering the subject: Subaltern Studies and histories of resistance in colonial South Asia/Rosalind O Hanlon. 6. Rallying around the subaltern/C.A. Bayly. 7. Moral economists, subalterns, new social movements and the (re) emergence of a post modernized middle peasant/Tom Brass. 8. Writing post-orientalist histories of the Third World: perspectives from Indian historiography/Gyan Prakash. 9. After orientalism: culture, criticism and politics in the Third world/Rosalind O Hanlon and David Washbrook. 10. Can the Subaltern ride? A reply to O Hanlon and washbrook/Gyan Prakash. 11. Orientalism revisited: Saidian frameworks in the writing of modern Indian history/Sumit Sarkar. 12. Radical histories and question of enlightenment rationalism: some recent critiques of Subaltern studies/Dipesh Chakrabarty. 13. Voices from the edge: the struggle to write Subaltern histories/Gyanendra Pandey. 14. The decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies/Sumit Sarkar. 15. The new Subaltern: a silent interview/Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Appendix. Index. 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. (jacket).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
• Publisher: Rawat Publications
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8131607461
• ISBN 13: 9788131607466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Inspired initially by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of the subaltern classes, the Subaltern Studies project adopted a “history from below” paradigm to contest “elite” history writing by Indian nationalists. Later the project shifted away from this position to draw upon eclectic thinkers such as Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. This volume is the first comprehensive balance-sheet of the project, presenting a collection of the most important writing from the last two decades and focusing on the key debates between the main scholars in the field.The collection begins with the original manifesto of the Subaltern Studies project, by Ranajit Guha. In the following contributions Partha Chatterjee and David Arnold, two of the founding members of the Subaltern Studies collective, examine concepts from Marx to Gramsci embedded in the writing of Indian peasant history. Critiques of the Subaltern project from C.A. Bayly, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Rosalind O’Hanlon and Tom Brass set the terms for the controversies around which the book is organized. Marxist and deconstructionist tendencies cross and clash in the exchange between O’Hanlon, David Washbrook and the Subalternist Gyan Prakash. Sumit Sarkar charts the contemporary direction of Subaltern Studies in its movement away from a set of Marxist concerns, and Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gyanendra Pandey respond with a spirited defense of these new directions, criticizing not only Marxism but the whole idea of history as Eurocentric. The volume concludes with an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on the future of the Subaltern Studies project and its vexed relationship with Marxism and feminism.