Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences. This volume explores what it means to set to work today studies of subaltern subjects in our rapidly mutating social worlds.
Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences. This volume explores what it means to set to work today studies of subaltern subjects in our rapidly mutating social worlds.
This handbook spans diverse historical, ethnographic, and geopolitical spaces, drawing in the Antipodes and the Americas, Diasporas and Oceanic worlds, Africa and the Middle East, apart from Europe and many South Asias overlapping arenas in which the subaltern continues to find distinct yet substantive articulations. It also seeks to meaningfully juxtapose practices and processes of gender and race; indigeneity and indenture; age and sexuality; slavery and apartheid; the Adivasi and the Dalit; settler-colonialisms and nations; nature and environment; caste and tribe; diaspora and blackness; capital and property; science and technology; media and cinema; the body and dance; heteronormativity and queerness; state and governance; politics and justice. In these ways, the study un-frames disciplinary boundaries and maps emergent terrains, exactly articulating pressing subjects and rethinking distinct subalternities.
This book is aimed at researchers, scholars, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the critical human sciences, especially history, anthropology, social theory and cultural, gender, and literary studies.
1. Introduction: Subalterns and Histories
Formations-Itineraries-Genealogies
2. Subaltern Photography
3. Some Ironies
and Anomalies in the History of Subaltern Studies
4. Adivasi Indigeneity:
Reframing Subaltern Studies Today
5. But Who May Abide?: Reckoning with
Ranajit Guha, 1923-2023
6. The Language Twist: Subaltern Studies and After
7.
Subaltern, to the Right and to the Left of the Spectrum
8. The Subaltern as a
Way of Reading: History Writing and the Colonial Oblivion in Latin America
9.
Notes on Subalternity and Combative Decoloniality: In Dialogue with Dipesh
Chakrabarty and Frantz Fanon
10. Subaltern Historiography and Post-Apartheid
South Africa
11. Peeping Through a Chink: Age, Evidence, and the Sexual
Subaltern
12. Science and the Subaltern: A Hairy-Eared History of Nehruvian
Science
13. Stretching Subalternity: The Figure of The Migrant in the
Postcolonial World Order
14. Property and Subaltern Pasts
Indigeneity-Servitude-Caste-Gender
15. Sovereignty, Anti-Extraction, and the
Prose of Insurgency in Mexico
16. Resurgent Indigeneity and Discourses on
History in Settler States
17. Subalterns in Indias Wildlife Conservation
18.
Captive Transactions: Measures of Violence in the Northeastern Frontier of
British India (1872-1919)
19. Ghosts of the Atlantic in South Asian
Historiography
20. Ameliorating the Enslaved: Connected Histories of the
Abolition of Slavery
21. Can the Subaltern Sweat?
22. Intimations of Dissent:
Sexuality, Caste, History
23. Degrees of Smell: Understanding and Resisting
Caste
24. When the Subaltern Speaks Supremacy
25. Sex, Caste, and Race:
Iterations of the Social Question in Ambedkars Castes in India
26. Dalit
Womanism-Humanism: Against Caste and Gender Hierarchies
27. Amid the Ruins:
Savitribai Phules Poetry as Subaltern History
28. Anti-Caste Tamil Cinema
Against the Darshanic Gaze Subjects-Arrangements-Practices
29. Muslim
Labourers and Subaltern Religion: Assertions of Faith and Community in
Colonial India
30. Catholic Workers and the Mexican Revolution
31. Labouring
Lives and Non-Work Moments: Rethinking Histories of Labour, Caste, and the
Subaltern
32. Protean Justice: The Law, the Lawgiver, and the Subaltern
Antinomies of Mughal and British India
33. Police Constables in Colonial
India: From Subaltern Studies to Labour and Life History
34. Elites,
Subjects, Citizens: Shifting Statuses of Zoroastrians
35. The Journey of a
Word: Media as Name, Concept, Weapon
36. Productions of Injustice:
Extra-Legal Credit in Northern India
37. Performance, Tradition,
Contestation: The Case of Bhojpuri Nautanki of Bihar
38. Bharatnatyam,
Sacred-Eroticism, and Liminality
39. Race, Gender, Reproduction:
Malinalli/Marina and Multiple Mestizaje
40. When and Where Do They Enter?:
Black Womens Travel Narratives and the Question of Agency
41. Afterword: The
New International
Saurabh Dube is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, El Colegio de México; National Researcher, Distinguished Category, SNII (National System of Researchers), Mexico; and Distinguished Research Fellow, Max Weber Stiftung (Germany-India). Apart from around 140 essays and book chapters, his authored books include Untouchable Pasts, Stitches on Time, After Conversion, Subjects of Modernity and Disciplines of Modernity, as well as a sextet in historical anthropology in the Spanish language. A 600-page anthology/omnibus of Dubes Spanish writings was published in 2019. Among his twenty edited volumes are Postcolonial Passages, Historical Anthropology, Enchantments of Modernity, Crime through Time, Unbecoming Modern and Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South. Dube also edits the innovative series, Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects. He has been Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, the Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa, the Max Weber Kolleg, Germany and the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna. Dube has also held visiting professorships, several times, at institutions such Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and Goa University (where he occupied the DD Kosambi Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies).
Ishita Banerjee is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, National Researcher, Distinguished Category, SNII (National System of Researchers), Mexico and Distinguished Research Fellow, Max Weber Stiftung (Germany-India). Her six authored books include A History of Modern India (2015), Religion, Law, and Power (2007) and Divine Affairs (2001). Among her dozen edited volumes are Cooking Cultures (2016), On Modern Indian Sensibilities (2018) and Caste in History (2008). Banerjee has published articles in a wide range of journals in the English and Spanish languages and edited the book-series Hinduism. She has been Fellow of the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. Banerjee has held visiting professorships at the Simon Bolivar Andean University, Quito, Syracuse University and Goa University (where she occupied the DD Kosambi Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies).
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