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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Ramesh Karthik Nayak – “Mine is a subaltern voice”

How did you react when you won the award? Do they pay or do they only give a shield and a shawl?” Dhaavlo by Ramesh Karthik Nayak; ₹180, Anvikshiki Publishers Your writing is rooted in the cultural context of the Banjara/Lambadi community — food, clothes, folklore, ceremonies, and the intimate relationship with trees and animals. The short story titled “Costa”, …

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6 months ago

The discreet charm of the subaltern godmen

Hindustan Times

The stampede at the Hathras satsang raises many questions about all that went wrong that day — more due to negligence and thoughtlessness among key actors than any freak occurrence. One may find such patterns in the sects led by Baba Ram Raheem of the Dera Sacha Sauda in Punjab, Jai Gurudev collectives in northern India, and, of course, Narayan …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy

Al Jazeera

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the noted postcolonial scholar and global public intellectual, is perhaps best known for her piece, “Can the subaltern speak?,” in which she claims that elite systems of knowledge filter out subaltern voices so that even when the subaltern does speak, it’s not heard. Spivak’s May 21 lecture on Du Bois’s “vision of democracy” was aimed at underlining …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

JNU student did not identify himself as Dalit: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on row over seminar

The Hindu

Disclaimer: In order to enable a free-wheeling conversation on the subject, the interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was carried out with the understanding that she would get to approve the direct quotes that would be published. This led to other audience members breaking out in giggles, many who attended the talk said, adding that Ms. Spivak might have also had …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Terms of Trade | Can an elite-subaltern dialogue save the cause of secularism in India?

Hindustan Times

We are now in the final lap of the two-and-a-half-month-long election cycle. The rise of OBC politics to challenge the dominance of Congress’s upper caste leadership and a systemic crisis in agriculture and migration of blue-collar workers to urban areas undermining the material importance of the village in India’s political economy theatre. What the Congress’s current leadership does not understand …

Politics India Secularism Political Uttar Pradesh Congress Indian

7 months, 4 weeks ago

The pitch for subaltern secularism

The Hindu

In the shifting sands of politics, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Lalu Prasad Yadav are two politicians who have remained steadfast on one question of principle — Hindu-Muslim harmony. Mr. Aiyar thinks and speaks in English; Mr. Yadav does so in Hindi, in fact, in Bhojpuri. Mr. Aiyar is 83, and Mr. Yadav is 75, but their paths have never crossed, …

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9 months ago

Political Line | Unity and divisiveness: in the eye of the beholder

The Hindu

An alien observer would be confused by the rhetoric of Indian elections. The BJP says the Congress — particularly its leader Rahul Gandhi — is encouraging divisions because of its demand for a nationwide caste census and the charge that cultural and administrative autonomy of States are under threat due to the centralising drive of the BJP. In this sense, …

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1 year, 3 months ago

With justice question back, BJP’s harmony platform faces fresh challenge

The Hindu

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh established the Samajik Samrasta Manch in 1983 in an open effort to reach out to the subaltern caste groups. Social justice parties that mobilised subaltern social groups grew stronger around the same time the RSS started this effort. Whenever the slogan of Hindu unity got the upper hand, the BJP won; whenever the justice question came …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion | Bharat for the World: Modi speaks for the global subaltern

Firstpost

It is largely due to New Delhi’s persistent call for urgent reform that India is being viewed increasingly by subalterns around the world as most capable of pursuing a humanising global governance aimed at democratising opportunity In his interview to Network18’s Moneycontrol, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has detailed how the rich learnings of his government’s experiences reaping the dividends of …

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1 year, 5 months ago

TRIBUTE | Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): Historian of ‘small voices’ that make a people’s history

The Hindu

A scholar who tirelessly documented the voices of the labouring and toiling women, men, and children. The viewpoint of “small voices”, of feminism, of borderland peoples, subaltern studies, and other critical histories in the postcolonial world, focussed this question of the meaning of history, politics, and self-representation through their investigations of the variations in the contexts, the course, and paradoxes …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Chaos and coalitions - The Hindu

The Hindu

Political parties are realigning, unsettling old equations across India. Between the two alliances that made their respective shows of strength last week, one could count 64 parties — 38 at the National Democratic Alliance meeting that endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a third term in 2024, and 26 at a gathering that vowed to work jointly to defeat him. …

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1 year, 7 months ago

A Tribute to Ranajit Guha, the historian who pioneered ‘Subaltern Studies’

The Hindu

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 ferrying him around Houston. The guest in question was none other than Ranajit Guha, the historian who had pioneered ‘Subaltern Studies’, a project to recover the largely neglected …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The BJP’s Karnataka defeat — a blow to its mythmaking

The Hindu

The Congress’ decisive win in Karnataka shatters two myths about the BJP’s electoral dominance — the idea of “subaltern Hindutva” and the popularity of the “double engine” slogan. The former tendency has scorched the BJP in state elections in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, while the latter tendency has stalled the party’s expansion bid in state elections of Telangana, Orissa …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Pa Ranjith’s Vaanam Art Festival celebrated subaltern joy this Dalit History Month

The Hindu

April is a month of celebration for director Pa Ranjith’s Neelam Cultural Centre. It is BR Ambedkar’s birth month, Dalit history month and the time when Vaanam Art Festival comes alive each year. The 2023 edition of Vaanam Art Festival comprised a host of activities through the month with young volunteers helming the show. A book exhibition, the PK Rosy …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Review: Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Hindustan Times

British historian, GM Trevelyan, once wrote, “There is nothing that more divides civilised from semi-savage man than to be conscious of our forefathers as they really were, and bit by bit to reconstruct the mosaic of the long forgotten past… How far can we know the real life of men in each successive age of the past?” It is for …

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1 year, 9 months ago

BJP does temple run ahead of Karnataka election to woo Vokkaligas, tribals

The Hindu

Published : Mar 22, 2023 14:24 IST - 9 MINS READ The swollen Tungabhadra flows lazily behind the world-famous Vijaya Vitthala temple complex at Hampi in Karnataka. A similar plan is afoot in Ramanagara in south Karnataka where senior BJP Ministers have declared that the Ram temple atop the Ramadevara Betta, called Pattabhirama temple, will be expanded over 19 acres …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Exhibition to show glimpse of India's artistic development since independence

Hindustan Times

A new group exhibition with artworks from the likes of MF Husain, SH Raza, Ram Kumar and others will show a glimpse of the journey of Indian artists over the last 75 years. Organised by the Centre of International Modern Art, Kolkata, the exhibition aims to provide a glimpse of the overall visual space shaped by 75 years of India's …

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2 years, 3 months ago

A rereading of Kerala modernity

The Hindu

Published : Sep 22, 2022 10:00 IST Writing a decade ago, Nissim Mannathukkaren observed that the most progressive outcome of the communist engagement in Kerala was its ability to convert “culture” into a “cog in the movement towards a material understanding and transformation of society”. This book is Mannathukkaren’s meticulous and empirically rich response to attempts at studying Kerala using …

Society Kerala Political Modernity Cultural Left Material

3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion| How Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as messiah of social justice

Firstpost

The recent Cabinet expansion by Modi gives a strong message to the communities, who were left out till date in policy-making and decision-making, that their time has come The issues of equality and diversity have been at the core of all social and political ideologies globally. The above introduction is in the backdrop of the recent Cabinet expansion of Prime …

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3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Subaltern Hindutva on the wane? CSDS-Lokniti Survey finds out

The Hindu

The phrase ‘subaltern Hindutva’ was bandied about quite a lot in academic and journalistic circles during the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly election. Many journalists and scholars covering stories from the field had a common account, that a large section of rural poor, backward classes, Dalits and Adivasis had firmly shifted towards the Bharatiya Janata Party under the influence of …

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3 years, 9 months ago

The fine print in Hindutva

The Hindu

Modern democracies are erected upon the twin pillars of rights and representation. In the post-Independence era, while the JP movement presented an ideological critique of the excesses of the state and foregrounded the safeguarding of the rights of citizens, the parties born out of the movement gradually embraced the politics of ‘impoverished representation’, wherein who was being represented became the …

Politics Hinduism Representation Rights Bjp Hindutva

3 years, 9 months ago

The Subaltern Shift: Why Bengal is Talking About Castes This Election Season

News 18

“I cannot take this anymore,” Chuni Kotal told her family members days before she died by suicide at a hostel in West Midnapore in August 1992. “Unfortunately, it never took off because political parties such as the Left, the Congress, the TMC and the BJP never wanted that to happen…it was also due to lack of unity among Dalits and …

Politics Kolkata Congress Election Tribal Caste Lok Sabha

4 years, 5 months ago

The conservative challenge to Hindutva

The Hindu

The proposed ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on August 5 has generated three broad responses: euphoria from supporters; outrage from the Left, Ambedkarites and secularists; and strong disapproval on procedural grounds from eminent Hindu saints. De-ritualising Hinduism These instances signify the growing process of de-ritualisation of the Hindu religion, primarily by the trustees …

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4 years, 7 months ago

The waning of subaltern solidarity for Hindutva

The Hindu

As the plight and precarity of migrant workers take centrestage, a pertinent question is about its political bearings. On the other hand, the conciliatory subalterneity which is friendly to Hindutva, heralds a phenomenon which I term as subaltern Hindutva, which at present is the dominant political discourse in the western, central and northern States of India, and of late has …

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Ramesh Karthik Nayak – “Mine is a subaltern voice”

The discreet charm of the subaltern godmen

Spivak, politics of pronunciation, and the search for a just democracy

JNU student did not identify himself as Dalit: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on row over seminar

Terms of Trade | Can an elite-subaltern dialogue save the cause of secularism in India?

The pitch for subaltern secularism

Political Line | Unity and divisiveness: in the eye of the beholder

With justice question back, BJP’s harmony platform faces fresh challenge

Opinion | Bharat for the World: Modi speaks for the global subaltern

TRIBUTE | Ranajit Guha (1923-2023): Historian of ‘small voices’ that make a people’s history

Chaos and coalitions - The Hindu

A Tribute to Ranajit Guha, the historian who pioneered ‘Subaltern Studies’

The BJP’s Karnataka defeat — a blow to its mythmaking

Pa Ranjith’s Vaanam Art Festival celebrated subaltern joy this Dalit History Month

Review: Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

BJP does temple run ahead of Karnataka election to woo Vokkaligas, tribals

Exhibition to show glimpse of India's artistic development since independence

A rereading of Kerala modernity

Opinion| How Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as messiah of social justice

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Subaltern Hindutva on the wane? CSDS-Lokniti Survey finds out

The fine print in Hindutva

The Subaltern Shift: Why Bengal is Talking About Castes This Election Season

The conservative challenge to Hindutva

The waning of subaltern solidarity for Hindutva