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Articles for Subaltern Studies

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

Politics History India Writing World Life Studies
A Tribute to Ranajit Guha, the historian who pioneered ‘Subaltern Studies’
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 …

History Indian Houston Studies Guha Subaltern Subaltern Studies
Review: Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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 …

History India Indian History Europe Empire Asia Indian
A rereading of Kerala modernity
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