As an intellectual project, Subaltern Studies was perhaps overdetermined by its times. Given today's changed contexts the tasks set out by it cannot be taken forward within the framework and methods ...

The Subaltern Studies project is now over three decades old. One of the founding members of the collective looks back at the "generative errors" which help carry the idea forward, even if the project ...

When Siddharth Sahu was in college, he started taking an interest in the Dalits, a community he belonged to. As a student of history, he was keen on understanding not just the community’s origins, but ...

Today, May 23, is the 100th anniversary of the birth of the historian Ranajit Guha, founder of Subaltern Studies. To mark the occasion, I am reprinting here a lightly edited version of a review I ...

PDF version of the book Subaltern Studies and its Critics: Debates over Indian History by Vinay Lal. Society and mind in Marxian philosophy - Anton Pannekoek Anton Pannekoek on materialism, Marxism ...

It was 1996. I was a young doctoral student with the department of anthropology at Rice University on the cusp of embarking on my own field research, tasked with keeping an invited guest company and ...

LAHORE: Literary theorist, philosopher and feminist critic Gayatri Spivak says the point about subaltern is not to put it in a position of authenticity as one destroys or deconstructs subalternity to ...

For those interested in Indian history, one of the most significant developments in the past four decades has been the rise and efflorescence of a school of historiography known as Subaltern Studies.

Historian Ranajit Guha’s death at his Austria home on Saturday, a month before his 100th birthday, has left the academic community in India and across the world remembering the icon’s enormous ...

- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. openDemocracy’s Discourses exhibition and discussion series is ...

Historian Ranajit Guha's death at his Austria home on Saturday, a month before his 100th birthday, has left the academic community in Kolkata and across the world remembering the icon's enormous ...