The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns Across History / edited by Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dube, Saurabh, editor.

Banerjee-Dube, Ishita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social.

Postcolonialism--Social aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Social classes.

Poor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (733 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction: Subalterns and Histories

PART I: 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

PART II: 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 India's 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?: On the Thermal Physiology of Empire

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 Ambedkar's Castes in India

26. Dalit Womanism-Humanism: Against Caste and Gender Hierarchies

27. Amid the Ruins: Savitribai Phule's Poetry as Subaltern History

28. Anti-Caste Tamil Cinema against the Darshanic Gaze

PART III: 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 Women's Travel Narratives and the Question of Agency

41. Afterword: The New International

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-04-034904-8

1-003-44143-2

9781003441434

OCLC:

1517848403

Publisher Number:

CIPO000211459