Subaltern studies ... : writings on South Asian history and society

Author(s)

• Guha, Ranajit
• Chatterjee, Partha
• Pandey, Gyanendra
• Arnold, David
• Hardiman, David
• Amin, Shahid
• Chakrabarty, Dipesh
• Bhadra, Gautama
• Prakash, Gyan
• Tharu, Susie J.

Bibliographic Information

Subaltern studies ... : writings on South Asian history and society

edited by Ranajit Guha

（Oxford India paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 1990-

Paperback ed

• 1 : pbk
• 2 : pbk
• 3 : pbk
• 4 : pbk
• 5 : pbk
• 6 : pbk
• 7 : pbk
• 8 : pbk
• 9 : pbk
• 10 : pbk

Other Title

Subaltern studies VIII : essays in honour of Ranajit Guha

Note

Originally published: c1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1999

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Vol. 7. edited by Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey

Vol. 8. edited by David Arnold and David Hardiman

Vol. 9. edited by Shahid Amin and Dipesh Chakrabarty

Vol. 10. edited by Gautam Bhadra, Gyan Prakash and Susie Tharu

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

7 : pbk ISBN 9780195633627

Description

Nation, community, religion, and language are the main themes which run through the writings in this volume of Subaltern Studies. Sudipta Kaviraj identifies some of the narrative modes through which the nationalist consciousness in India imagines a historical past for the nation. Partha Chatterjee looks at the way the new middle class of Calcutta constucted the figure of Sri Ramakrishna. Continuing his studies on the theme of 'dominance without hegemony', Ranajit Guha discusses the use of caste sanctions in the Swadeshi and non-cooperation movements. Saurabh Dube does a detailed reading of a twentieth-century text on the myths of Ghasidas and Balakdas, the gurus of the Satnami sect. Using a set of twelfth-century Judaeo-Arabic documents from Cairo, Amitav Ghosh does an imaginative reconstruction of the careers of a Jewish merchant in Mangalore and his Indian slave. Intervening in the Subaltern Studies discussion of community and religion, Terence Ranger offers a number of insights from the history of Zimbabwe into the dynamic connection between small and large solidarities.

Volume

1 : pbk ISBN 9780195634433

Description

Some extracts from reviews: '...the radically new programme of historical research initiated by a group of historians ...has firmly established itself as perhaps the most interesting approach in the field of South Asian Studies ...' Indian Book Chronicle '...brings home to us the urgent need to advance the frontiers of historical investigation ...' Economic and Political Weekly '...breaks new ground in history ...' The Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volume

4 : pbk ISBN 9780195635300

Description

Extracts from the reviews of the hardback edition 'This fourth volume...of immensely readable essays...comes as a bonus...'Indian Express '...the essays adhere to the fairly straightforward task of resurrecting for posterity the autonomous traditions of protest among groups of tribals or peasants, in response to the growing control of the colonial state over resources, and consequently, their life styles.' Indian Express 'The fourth volume has certian novel features ...is rich in the spectrum of subaltern life and culture that it covers...Only the domatic will deny or ignore the wealth of detail and analytical skill that the essays in this volume display.' The Telegraph One has come to expect meticulously researched cogently argued, well-written history from the Subaltern volumes. The fourth lives up to expectations although, thematically, this volume is more diverse than its forerunners.' Chandan Mitra, Sunday Statesman

Volume

5 : pbk ISBN 9780195635355

Description

This is a reissue in Oxford India Paperbacks of the previous paperback edition of this work.

Table of Contents

• The Bhils and Shahukars of Eastern Gujarat
• Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague, 1896-1900
• A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini'
• 'Chandra's Death
• Approver's Testimony, Judicial Discourse: The Case of Chauri Chaura
• Discussion: Subaltern Studies: Capital, Class, and Community
• Discussion: In Search of a Subaltern Lenin
• Mahasweta Devi, Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• Appendix A: 'Breast-Giver'
• Appendix B: The Testimony of Shikari, the Approver, in the Court of Sessions Judge H. E. Holmes

Volume

6 : pbk ISBN 9780195635362

Description

The categories of domination and subordination briefly enunciated by the editor in the first volume of the series are more fully explored in this, the sixth volume of Subaltern Studies. Extracts from the reviews '..about India since the nineteenth century. In the present collection of six essays and two smaller comments the history of mentality is the focul point.' International Review of Social History Amsterdam '...in a major departure from elite historical discourse, (Subaltern Studies) trace how peasant movements have affected the unfolding history, present some fascinating and hitherto neglected insights of...' Sunday Observer '...rank with the finest examples of social history produced anywhere in the world. In terms of length, quality, and intellectual provenance, the essays...are extraordinarily diverse.' The Indian Economic and Social History Review

Table of Contents

• Sumit Sarkar: The Kali-Avatar of Bikrampur: A Village Scandal in Early-Twentieth Century Bengal
• Gautam Bhadra: The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma
• Julie Stephens: Feminist Fictions: A Critique of the Category 'Non-Western Woman' in Feminist Writings on India
• Susie Tharu: Response to Julie Stephens
• Gyanendra Pandey: The Colonial Construction of 'Communalism': British Writings on Benares in the Nineteenth Century
• Partha Chatterjee: Caste and Subaltern Consciousness
• Ranajit Guha: Dominance Without Hegemony and its Historiography
• Veena Das: Subaltern as Perspective.

Volume

8 : pbk ISBN 9780195637212

Description

An eighth book in the Subaltern Series which considers themes from the writings of Ranajit Guha. They link Subaltern experience and mentality in India with colonial knowledge and power as well as with the culture and politics of the country's elite population.

Volume

9 : pbk ISBN 9780195643343

Description

Subaltern Studies IX carries forward the Subaltern agenda of searching for the voices and agency of the subaltern, enlarging the focus to include contemporary issues of gender, oppression, and lumpenization in metropolitan modern India.

Volume

10 : pbk ISBN 9780195651249

Description

The essays in this volume describe not only the historical practices of the dominated, but also demonstrates the centrality of the subaltern perspective in understanding dominant formations and representations.

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• NCID: BA26337364
• ISBN:
  • 0195634438
  • 0195633652
  • 0195635299
  • 0195635302
  • 0195635353
  • 0195635361
  • 0195633628
  • 0195637216
  • 0195643348
  • 0195651243
• Country Code: ii
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Delhi ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 225
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0711565X