A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995

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The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, begun with the goal of establishing a new critique of both colonialist and nationalist perspectives in the historiography of colonized countries. 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. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Ranajut Guha 1. In Defense of the Fragment: Writing about Hindu-Muslim Riots in India Today by Gyanendra Pandey 2. Chandra's Death by Ranajit Guha 3. The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma by Gautam Bhadra 4. Origins and Transformations of the Devi by David Hardiman 5. The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge, and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India by David Arnold 6. Remembering Chauri Chaura: Notes from Historical Fieldwork by Shahid Amin 7. The Nation and Its Women by Partha Chatterjee 8. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts? by Dipesh Chakrabarty Contributors Index