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Give an account of Ranajit Guha’s approach in studying ‘subaltern class’.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Ranajit Guha founded the Subaltern Studies collective, whose first volume appeared in 1982, to write Indian history from the standpoint of those it had always been written about. Subaltern he took from Antonio Gramsci: the subordinated of a society, by class, caste, gender or office. His claim was that they made a politics of their…

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  • The quarrel with existing historiography
  • Method: reading the archive against the grain
  • The elementary aspects
  • Dominance without hegemony
  • Critiques
  • Conclusion

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