Subaltern Studies

• Ranajit Guha, "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India"
• Partha Chatterjee, "Agrarian Relations and Communalism in Bengal, 1920–1935"
• Shahid Amin, "Small Peasant Commodity Production and Rural Indebtedness: the Culture of Sugarcane in Eastern U.P., c. 1880–1920"
• David Arnold, "Rebellious Hillmen: the Gudem-Rampa Risings, 1839–1924"
• Gyanendra Pandey, "Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism: The Peasant Movement in Awadh, 1919–1922"
• David Hardman, "The Indian 'Faction': A Political Theory Examined"

• Ranajit Guha, "The Prose of Counterinsurgency"
• Gautam Bhadra, "Two Frontier Uprisings in Mughal India"
• Gyanendra Pandey, "Rallying Around the Cow: Sectarian Strife in the Bhojpuri Region, c.1888–1917"
• Stephen Hennigham, "Quit India in Bihar and the Eastern United Provinces: The Dual Revolt"
• Arvind K. Das, "Agrarian Change from Above and Below: Bihar 1947–78"
• N.K. Chandra, "Agricultural Workers in Burdwan"
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Condition of Knowledge for Working-Class Conditions: Employers, Government and the Jute Workers of Calcutta, 1890–1940"
• Partha Chatterjee, "More on Modes of Power and the Peasantry"

• Shahid Amin, "Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921–2"
• David Arnold, "Famine in Peasant Consciousness and Peasant Action: Madras, 1876–8"
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Trade Unions in a Hierarchical Culture: The Jute Workers of Calcutta, 1920–50"
• Partha Chatterjee, "Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society"
• David Hardiman, "Adivasi Assertion in South Gujarat: The Devi Movement of 1922–3"
• Gyanendra Pandey, "'Encounters and Calamities': The History of a North Indian Qasba in the Nineteenth Century"
• Sumit Sarkar, "The Conditions and Nature of Subaltern Militancy: Bengal from Swadeshi to Non-Co-operation, c.1905–22"

• David Arnold, "Bureaucratic Recruitment and Subordination in Colonial India: The Madras Constabulary, 1859–1947"
• Ramachandra Guha, "Forestry and Social Protest in British Kumaun, c.1893–1921"
• Swapan Dasgupta, "Adivasi Politics in Midnapur, c.1760–1924"
• Tanika Sarkar, "Jitu Santal's Movement in Malda, 1924–1932: A Study in Tribal Protest"
• David Hardiman, "From Custom to Crime: The Politics of Drinking in Colonial South Gujarat"
• Gautam Bhadra, "Four Rebels of Eighteen Fifty-Seven"
• Bernard S. Cohn, "The Command of Language and the Language of Command"


• Discussion
  
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography"
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Invitation to a Dialogue"

• David Hardiman, "The Bhils and Shahukars of Eastern Gujarat"
• David Arnold, "Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague, 1896–1900"
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini'"
• Ranajit Guha, "Chandra's Death"
• Shahid Amin, "Approver's Testimony, Judicial Discourse: The Case of Chauri Chaura"


• Discussion
  
• Asok Sen, "Subaltern Studies: Capital, Class, and Community"
• Ajit K. Chaudhury, "In Search of a Subaltern Lenin"


• Appendices
  
• Mahasweta Devi, "Breast-Giver", translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• The Testimony of Shikari, the Approver, in the Court of Sessions Judge H. E. Holmes

• Sumit Sarkar, "The Kalki-Avatar of Bikrampur: A Village Scandal in Early-Twentieth Century Bengal"
• Gautam Bhadra, "The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma"
• Julie Stephens, "Feminist Fictions: A Critique of the Category 'Non-Western Woman' in Feminist Writings on India"
• Susie Tharu, "Response to Julie Stephens"
• Gyanendra Pandey, "The Colonial Construction of 'Communalism': British Writings on Benares in the Nineteenth Century"
• Partha Chatterjee, "Caste and Subaltern Consciousness"
• Ranajit Guha, "Dominance Without Hegemony and its Historiography"
• Discussion
• Veena Das, "Subaltern as Perspective"

• Sudipta Kaviraj, "The Imaginary Institution of India"
• Partha Chatterjee, "A Religion of Urban Domesticity: Sri Ramakrishna and the Calcutta Middle Class"
• Ranajit Guha, "Discipline and Mobilize"
• Saurabh Dube, "Myths, Symbols and Community: Satnampanth of Chhattisgarh"
• Amitav Ghosh, "The Slave of MS. H.6"
• Terence Ranger, "Power, Religion and Community: The Matobo Case"
• Discussion
• Upendra Baxi, "'The State's Emissary': The Place of Law in Subaltern Studies"

• Partha Chatterjee, "Claims on the Past: The Genealogy of Modern Historiography in Bengal"
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, "The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British India"
• David Hardiman, "Power in the Forests: The Dangs, 1820–1940"
• David Arnold, "The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India"
• Gyanendra Pandey, "The Prose of Otherness"
• Shahid Amin and Gautam Bhadra, "Ranajit Guha: A Biographical Sketch"
• A Bibliography of Ranajit Guha's Writings" compiled by Gautam Bhadra

• Ranajit Guha, "The Small Voice of History"
• Ajay Skaria, "Writing, Orality and Power in the Dangs, Western India, 1800s–1920s"
• Gyan Prakash, "Science Between the Lines"
• Kamala Visweswaran, "Small Speeches, Subaltern Gender: Nationalist Ideology and Its Historiography"
• Shail Mayaram, "Speech, Silence and the Making of Partition Violence in Mewat"
• Kancha Illaih, "Productive Labour, Consciousness and History: the Dalitbahujan Alternative"
• Vivek Dhareshwar and R. Srivatsan, "'Rowdy Sheeters: An Essay on Subalternity and Politics"
• Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana, "Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender"
• Discussion
• David Lloyd, "Outside History: Irish New Histories and the 'Subalternity Effect'"

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