Selected Subaltern Studies

by Guha, Ranajit; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty; Said, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780195052893
• ISBN10: 0195052897
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-05-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derrida's Of Grammatology into English--and a foreword by eminent critic Edward W. Said. Addressed to students and scholars throughout the humanities, these essays address what Antonio Gramsci--the founder of the Italian communist party--called the subaltern classes, reexamining well-known historical and political events, such as Gandhi's role in India, from a Marxist perspective. Together, the essays examine aspects of the analysis of domination, with special reference to the critique of imperialism, in an attempt to rectify the elitist bias characteristic of much academic work on India. A ground-breaking work of considerable pedagogical relevance for courses dealing with colonialism and imperialism in literature, sociology, anthropology, politics, and history, Subaltern Studies also features a comprehensive glossary of Indian terms for readers not familiar with Indian history.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Editor's Note

Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography

Methodology

(Vol. I): Preface

(Vol. I): On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India

(Vol. II): The Prose of Counter-Insurgence

From Mughal To British

(Vol. III): Encounters and Calamities

(Vol. IV): Four Rebels of Eighteen-Fifty-Seven

Domination Analysis In The Pre-Capitalist Context

(Vol. II): Conditions for Knowledge of Working-Class Conditions

Nationalism: Gandhi As Signifier

(Vol. I): Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism

(Vol. III): Gandhi as Mahatma

Developing Foucault

(Vol. II): More on Modes of Power

(Vol. V): Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague

Glossary

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