Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History, Contested Meaning and the Globalization of South Asia

by David Ludden (Editor)

Overview

The volume provides a reliable point of departure for new readers of Subaltern Studies and a resource base for experienced readers who want to revive critical debates. In his introduction, David Ludden traces the intellectual history of subalternity and analyses trends in the globalization of academic discourse that account for the changing character of Subaltern Studies as well as for the shifting debates around it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781843310587
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	02/01/2002
Series:	Anthem South Asian Studies
Edition description:	First Edition, 1
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Ludden is Professor of History at the Universityof Pennsylvania. He teaches South Asian history and development studies, particularly issues surrounding hunger, poverty and environment.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A brief History of Subalternity; Peasantry, Politics, and Historiography: Critique of New Trend in Relation to Marxism; Subaltern Studies II: A Review Article; Significance of Non-subaltern Mediation; Subaltern Autonomy and the National Movement; Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia; The Dis/appearance of Subalterns: A Reading of a Decade of 'Subaltern Studies'; Situating the Subaltern: History and Anthropology in the Subaltern Studies Project; Conflict and Connection: Rethinking Colonial African History; Subaltern Studies: Radical History in the Metaphoric Mode; Drought and TADA in Adilabad; Relevance (or Irrelevance) of Subaltern Studies; The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies