Selected Subaltern StudiesRanajit Guha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Preface | 35 |
The Prose of CounterInsurgency | 45 |
Encounters and Calamities 89 68 | 89 |
Four Rebels of EighteenFiftySeven | 129 |
Conditions for Knowledge of WorkingClass Conditions | 179 |
Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism | 233 |
Gandhi as Mahatma | 288 |
More on Modes of Power and the Peasantry | 351 |
Perspectives on the Indian Plague | 391 |
Glossary | 427 |
Common terms and phrases
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