Subaltern Working Bibliography

Guha, Ranajit, ed. A Subaltern Studies Reader: 1986–1995.
      Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1998.
———, ed., et. al. Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History & Society, vols.I–IX. (To TOC)
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1982–1996.
——— and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds. Selected Subaltern Studies.
      New York: Oxford University Press. 1988.

Major Monographs Amin, Shahid. Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922–1992.
      Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995.
———. Some Considerations on Evidence, Language and History.
      Delhi: Indian History Congress, 1994.
———. Sugarcane & Sugar in Gorakhpur: An Inquiry into Peasant Production for Capitalist Enterprise in Colonial India.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1984.
Arnold, David. Police, Power & Colonial Rule: Madras, 1859–1947.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1986.
———. Famine: Social Crisis & Historical Change.
      Oxford: Blackwell. 1988.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890–1940.
      Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1989.
Chatterjee, Partha. Bengal, 1920–1947: The Land Question.
      Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Company. 1984.
———. Nationalist Thought & The Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?
      Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1986.
———. The Nation & Its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1995.
———. The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1997.
———. Possible India.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1998.
Cohn, Bernard S. An Anthropologist Among the Historians & Other Essays.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1987.
______. Colonialism & Its Forms of Knowledge.
      Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1996.
Guha, Ranajit. An Indian Historiography of India: A Nineteenth Century Agenda & Its Implications.
      Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Company. 1988.
______. Dominance without Hegemony: History & Power in Colonial India.
      Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997.
———. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1983.
Hardiman, David. Feeding the Baniya: Peasants & Usurers in Western India.
      Delhi. 1996.
———. The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1987.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Mayaram, Shail. Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Pandey, Gyanendra. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India.
      Delhi: Oxford University Press India. 1990.
Pandian, M.S.S. The Image Trap: M.G. Ramachandran in Film and Politics.
      New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992.
Prakash, Gyan. Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labour Servitude in Colonial India.
      Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Related Essays & Criticism Alam, Javeed. "Peasantry, Politics and Historiography: Critique of New Trend in Relation to Marxism."
      Social Scientist (February 1983) 117, vol.11, no.2, pp. 43–54.
Arnold, David . "Gramsci and Peasant Subalternity in India."
      Journal of Peasant Studies (1984) 11, 4, pp.155–177.
Bahl, Vinay. "Relevance (or Irrelevance) of Subaltern Studies."
      Economic and Political Weekly (1997) vol.32, no.23, pp.1333.
Barkan, Elazar. "Post-Anti-Colonial Histories: Representing the Other in Imperial Britain."
      Journal of British Studies (April 1994) 33, 2, pp.180–204.
Bayly, C.A. "Rallying Around the Subaltern."
      Journal of Peasant Studies (1988) 16, 1, pp. 110–120.
Bhabha, Homi K. "The Postcolonial and Postmodern: The Question of Agency."
      In The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994. pp.171–197.
Bhattacharya, Nandini. "Behind the Veil: The Many Masks of Subaltern Sexuality."
      Women's Studies International Forum (May/June 1996), vol.19, pp.277–92.
Brass, Tom. "Moral Economists, Subalterns, New Social Movements, and the (Re-) Emergence of a (Post-) Modernised (Middle) Peasant."
      Journal of Peasant Studies (January 1991) 18, 2, pp. 173–205.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. "Class Consciousness & The Indian Working Class: Dilemmas of Marxist Historiography."
      Journal of Asian & African Studies (January/April 1988) 23, pp.21–31.
———. "Marx after Marxism: History, Subalternity & Difference."
      Meanjin (Spring 1993) 52 pp. 421–434.
———. "Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts."
      Perspectives (November 1997), pp.37–43.
———. "Radical Histories and Question of Enlightenment Rationalism: Some Recent Critiques of Subaltern Studies."
      Economic and Political Weekly (1995), vol. 30, no. 14, pp.751–759.
———. "The Death of History."
      Public Culture (1992), vol.4, no.2, pp.47–65.
———. "Trafficking in History and Theory."
      In K.K. Ruthven, ed. Beyond the Disciplines: The New Humanities. Canberra, 1992.
Chatterjee, Partha. "Peasant, Politics and Historiography: A Response."
      Social Scientist (May 1983) 120, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 58–65.
———. "Was There a Hegemonic Project of the Colonial State?"
      In Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State & Society in Africa and India. Dagmar Engels and Shula Marks, eds. London: British Academic Press, 1994. pp.79–84.
Chopra, Suneet. "Missing Correct Perspective."
      Social Scientist (August 1982) 111, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 55–63.
Currie, Kate. "The Challenge to Orientalist, Elitist, and Western Historiography: Notes on the 'Subaltern Project, 1982–1989."
      Dialectical Anthropology (1995) vol.20, no.2, pp.217.
Das Gupta, Ranajit. "Indian Working Class and Some Recent Historiographical Issues."
      Economic and Political Weekly 31 (February 24, 1996) pp. L–27–L–31.
Dienst, Richard. "Imperialism, Subalternity, Autonomy: Modes of Third World Historiography."
      Polygraph 1 (1987) pp. 67–80.
Gramsci, Antonio. "Notes on Italian History."
      In Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith, trs. & eds. Selections from Prison Notebooks. London: Lawrence & Wishart; New York: International Publishers, 1971, p.52.
Gupta, Dipankar. "On Altering the Ego in Peasant History: Paradoxes of the Ethnic Option."
      Peasant Studies 13, 1 (Fall 1985) pp. 5–24.
Hardiman, David. "'Subaltern Studies' at Crossroads."
      Economic and Political Weekly 21 (February 15, 1986) pp. 288–290.
Jalal, Ayesha. "Secularists, Subalterns & the Stigma of 'Communalism': Partition Historiography Revisited."
      Modern Asian Studies (July 1996), vol.30, pp.681–9.
Kaviraj, Sudipta. "On the Construction of Colonial Power: structure, discourse, hegemony."
      In Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State & Society in Africa and India. Dagmar Engels and Shula Marks, eds. London: British Academic Press, 1994. pp.19–54.
Masselos, Jim. "The Dis/Appearance of Subalterns: A Reading of a Decade of Subaltern Studies."
      South Asia (n.s.) 15, 1 (1992) pp. 105–125.
Mukherjee, Mridula. "Peasant Resistance and Peasant Consciousness in Colonial India: 'Subalterns' and Beyond."
      Economic and Political Weekly 23 (October 8, 1988) pp. 2109–2120; (October 15, 1988) pp. 2174–2185.
O'Hanlon, Rosalind. "Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia."
      Modern Asian Studies 22, 1 (1988) pp. 189–224.
——— and David Washbrook. "After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism, and Politics in the Third World."
      Comparative Studies in Society and History 34, 1 (January 1992), pp. 141–167.
Pandey, Gyanendra. "In Defence of the Fragment: Writing About Hindu-Muslim Riots in India Today."
      In Representations (Winter 1992) 37, pp.27–55.
———. "Voices from the Edge: The Struggle to Write Subaltern Histories."
      Ethnos (1995), vol.60, no.3–4, pp.223.
Perusek, Darshan. "Subaltern Consciousness and the Historiography of the Indian Revolution of 1857."
      Novel 25, 3 (Spring 1992) pp. 286–302 or in Economic and Political Weekly 28 (September 11, 1993) pp. 1931–1936.
Prakash, Gyan. "Writing Post–Orientalist Histories in the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historigraphy."
      Comparative Studies in Society and History 32, 2 (April 1990) pp. 383–408.
———. "Can the Subaltern Ride?: A Reply to O'Hanlon and Washbrook."
      Comparative Studies in Society and History 34, 1 (January 1992) pp. 168–184.
———. "Postcolonial Criticism and Indian Historiography."
      Social Text 31/32 (1992) pp. 8–19.
———. "Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism."
      American Historical Review 99 (December 1994) pp. 1475–1490.
Rai, A. S. "`Thus Spake the Subaltern...': Postcolonial Criticism and the Scene of Desire."
      Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media & Culture (1997), vol.19, no.2, pp.163.
Sarkar, Sumit. "Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writing of Modern Indian History."
      Oxford Literary Review 16, 1–2 (1994) pp. 203–224.
———. "The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies."
      In Writing Social History. Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 1997. pp.82–108.
———. "The Fascism of the Sangha Parivar."
      Economic and Political Weekly (20 January 1993) vol.27, no.5.
Sathyamurthy, T. V. "Indian Peasant Historiography: A Critical Perspective on Ranajit Guha's Work."
      Journal of Peasant Studies (October 1990) vol.18, no.1, pp.93–141.
Sivaramakrishnan, K. "Situating the Subaltern: History and Anthropology in the Subaltern Studies Project."
      Journal of Historical Sociology 8 (December 1995) pp. 395–429.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
      In Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds. Marxism & The Interpretation of Culture. London: Macmillan, 1988.
Stein, Burton. "A Decade of Historical Efflorescence."
      South Asia Research 10, 2 (November 1990) pp. 125–138.

Book Reviews Bhabha, Homi K. "The Voice of the Dom." [Review of Colonialism & Its Forms of Knowledge; Subaltern Studies IX; The Present History of West Bengal].
      Times Literary Supplement (8 August 1997) no.4923, pp.14–15.
Brennan, Lance. [Book review].
      Pacific Affairs (Fall 1984) vol.57, no.3, pp. 509–511.
Freitag, Sandria. [Review of Subaltern Studies I].
      Journal of Asian Studies (August 1984) 43, 4, pp.779–780.
Guha, Ramachandra. [Review of Subaltern Studies V and VI].
      Indian Economic and Social History Review (1991) 28, 1, pp.116–118.
———. "Subaltern and Bhadralok Studies."
      Economic and Political Weekly (19 August 1995) 30 pp. 2056–2058.
Hauser, Walter. [Review of Selected Subaltern Studies].
      American Historical Review (February 1991) 96, 1, pp.241–243.
———. [Review of Subaltern Studies VI].
      The Journal of Asian Studies (November 1991) v. 50, pp.968–9.
Singh, Sangeeta, et. al. "Subaltern Studies II: A Review Article."
      Social Scientist (October 1984) 137, vol. 12, 8 pp.3–41.

To Subaltern Studies Tables of Contents, Volumes I–IX The working bibliography is published here by permission of its compilers:
Dr Henry Schwarz and Shekhar Krishnan, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Also refer to the Bibliography of Asian Studies

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