Table of Contents
Introduction Vinayak Chaturuedi vii
1 On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1
2 The Nation and Its Peasants Partha Chatterjee 8
3 Gramsci and Peasant Subalternity in India David Arnold 24
4 'The Making of the Working Class': E. P. Thompson and Indian History Rnjnarayan Chandavarkar 50
5 Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia Rosalind O'Hanlon 72
6 Rallying Around the Subaltern C.A. Bayly 116
7 Moral Economists, Subalterns, New Social Movements and the (Re-) Emergence of a (Post-) Modernized (Middle) Peasant Tom Brass 127
8 Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography Gyan Prakash 163
9 After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism and Politics in the Third World Rosalind O'Hanlon David Washbrook 191
10 Can the 'Subaltern' Ride? A Reply to O'Hanlon and Washbrook Gyan Prakash 220
11 Orientalism Revisited: Saidian Frameworks in the Writing of Modern Indian History Sumit Sarkar 239
12 Radical Histories and Question of Enlightenment Rationalism: Some Recent Critiques of Subaltern Studies Dipesh Chakrabarty 256
13 Voices from the Edge: The Struggle to Write Subaltern Histories Gyanendra Pandey 281
14 The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies Sumit Sarkar 300
15 The New Subaltern: A Silent Interview Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 324
Appendix: Select Bibliography 341
Acknowledgements 350
Index 351
