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Selected Subaltern Studies (Essays from the 5 Volumes and a Glossary): (01 May 1988)

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Subaltern Studies and Its Critics: Debates over Indian History [A Subaltern Studies Reader 1986-1995 (Ranajit Guha)]: History and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1. (2001), pp. 135-148.

Source: History and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1. (2001), pp. 135-148.
Provincializin g Europe: (15 September 2000)Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializin g Europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how postcolonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. This book explores, through a series of linked essays, the problems of thought that present themselves when we think of a place such as India through the categories of modern, European social science and, in particular, history.Provin cializing Europe is a sustained conversation between historical thinking and postcolonial perspectives. It addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of the modern in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Chakrabarty argues, is built right into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and human sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Chakrabarty finds that "Nativism," however, is no answer to Eurocentrism, because the universals propounded by European Enlightenment remain indispensable to any social critique that seeks to address issues of social justice and equity. Provincializin g Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought-catego ries into the categories and self-understan dings of capitalist modernity. Chakrabarty demonstrates, both theoretically and with examples from colonial and contemporary India, how such translational histories may be thought and written. Provincializin g Europe is not a project of shunning European thought. It is a project of globalizing such thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins. Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializin g Europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how post-colonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. This book explores, through a series of linked essays, the problems of thought that present themselves when we think of a place such as India through the categories of modern, European social science and, in particular, history.

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Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration: (15 August 1992)Through ethnographic research, sociologists and anthropologist s explore the interaction of America's newcomers with established residents in six cities. Their analysis highlights the importance of class and power as immigrants interact in the workplace, at home, at school, and in community organizations.

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Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1. (1985), pp. 243-261.

Source: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1. (1985), pp. 243-261.
Relevance (or Irrelevance) of Subaltern Studies: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 23. (1997), pp. 1333-1344.Suba ltern studies, while claiming to rewrite history from the perspective of subaltern groups as a prelude to creating a new emancipatory politics, has deviated from its original intent and become mired in post-modernist debates about 'difference'. A critique of this brand of history writing should start from a simple question: what is its politics, and whose interests may it serve? But as this paper demonstrates, the subalternist approach can be criticised on many other grounds as well, including its lack of a coherent theory of how subjectivity and agency are constructed within a concrete historical context, and its refusal to acknowledge how global capitalist forces are being worked out on the ground, including the generation of 'differences'.

Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 32, No. 23. (1997), pp. 1333-1344.
Subaltern Consciousness and Historiography of Indian Rebellion of 1857: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 28, No. 37. (1993), pp. 1931-1936.The subaltern historians' rewriting of history has two objectives: (1) the dismantling of elitist historiography by decoding biases and value judgments in records, testimonies, and narratives of the ruling-classes ; and (2) the restoration to subaltern groups of their 'agency', their role in history as 'subjects', with an ideology and a political agenda of their own. While the first objective has yielded some interesting and important insights, the second has led to results which have been, at best, problematic, and, at worst, tediously neo-antiquaria n and remarkably unremarkable in their banality. These problems derive from the contradictions and confusions inherent in the very concept of subalternity as a socio/politica l category.

Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 28, No. 37. (1993), pp. 1931-1936.
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial: (24 May 2000)This newest volume in the Mappings Series offers the first comprehensive balance-sheet of the Subaltern Studies Project, an intervention in South Asian history and politics, which has recently generated a powerful impact in Latin American, Irish, and African Studies. Initially inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the Subaltern Studies authors adopted a "history from below" paradigm to contest "elite" history writing of Indian nationalists, from the left and right. Later the Project shifted away from its social history origins by drawing upon eclectic thinkers such as Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Brought together in these pages are classic essays and trenchant criticism from authors such as David Arnold, C. A. Bayly, Tom Brass, Partha Chatterjee, Ranajit Guha, Rosalind O'Hanlon, Gyanendra Pandey, Gyan Prakash, Sumit Sarkar, Gayatri Spivak and David Washbrook.

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The Intellectual's Deaf-Mute, or (How) Can We Speak beyond Postcolonialit y?:
Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place: Remapping Resistance in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands: Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 13, No. 3. (1998), pp. 344-381.

Source: Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 13, No. 3. (1998), pp. 344-381.

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