Subaltern Studies

The historiographical intervention of the Indian Subaltern Studies Group took as their targets elite and nationalist accounts of the transition from colonialism to nationhood. However, they also included in their interventions a corresponding critique of Marxist analyses of the transition to nationa...

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Published in:Krisis (Amsterdam, Netherland : 2000) Netherland : 2000), 2018-01 (2)
Main Author: Dasgupta, Sudeep
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asian history
Capitalism
Colonialism
Criticism
Exploitation
Globalization
Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937)
Hegemony
Historiography
Identity politics
Intervention
Marxism
Modernity
Narratives
Nation states
Nationalism
Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey
Politics
Postcolonialism
Power
Religion
Religion & politics
Society
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
Subaltern identities
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Summary:The historiographical intervention of the Indian Subaltern Studies Group took as their targets elite and nationalist accounts of the transition from colonialism to nationhood. However, they also included in their interventions a corresponding critique of Marxist analyses of the transition to nationalism. As Gyan Prakash argues “When Marxists turned the spotlight on colonial exploitation, their criticism was framed by a historicist scheme that universalized Europe’s historical experience” (Prakash 1994, 1375).Subaltern Studiesthus also found a place within the field of Postcolonial Studies’ critique of Europe-centred analyses of history, politics and identity. The critique of Marxism targeted the Marxist reliance on “mode-of-production narratives” couched in terms of a “nation-state’s ideology of modernity and progress” which resulted in an inability to take seriously “the oppressed’s ‘lived experience’ of religion and social customs” (ibid., 1477).
ISSN:1875-7103