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.681-89.

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.779-80.

Guha, Ramachandra. [Review of Subaltern Studies V and VI].
      Indian Economic and Social History Review (1991) 28, 1, pp.116-18.

- - - -. "Subaltern and Bhadralok Studies."
      Economic and Political Weekly (19 August 1995) 30 pp. 2056-58.

Hauser, Walter. [Review of Selected Subaltern Studies].
      American Historical Review (February 1991) 96, 1, pp.241-43.

- - - -. [Review of Subaltern Studies VI].
      The Journal of Asian Studies (November 1991) v. 50, pp.968-69.

Singh, Sangeeta, et. al. "Subaltern Studies II: A Review Article."
      Social Scientist (October 1984) 137, vol. 12, 8 pp.3-41.


To Tables of Contents for the Subaltern Studies series, 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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