| ID | 137257 |
| Title Proper | Subaltern after subaltern studies |
| Other Title Information | genealogies and transformations |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ganguly, Debjani |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Few scholars of my generation with an interest in South Asian and Post-Colonial Studies have escaped the influence of Subaltern Studies. Many of us chose a research trajectory that fortuitously offered opportunities to work in proximity with members of the Subaltern Studies collective. By the time I began my graduate work on caste and Dalit studies at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra in the late 1990s, Ranajit Guha had already stepped down as editor of Subaltern Studies and his celebrated six volumes had become part of global academic lore. Reading these volumes as a fresh college lecturer in Mumbai in the early 1990s played no small part in my decision to undertake my graduate training in Canberra. Guha, after all, was based at ANU as a senior research fellow at the erstwhile Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS). He had moved there in 1980 from the UK and lived in Canberra for the next two decades, in effect conferring on ANU the distinction of being the academic home from which the classic volumes of Subaltern Studies emanated—a fact, perhaps, little known to a new generation of post-colonial scholars globally. Dipesh Chakrabarty, an alumnus of ANU, had already moved to the University of Chicago. But he had a visiting appointment at the Humanities Research Centre that adjoined the Literature Department in ANU's famous A.D. Hope Building. Given my disciplinary base in the literature programme, I soon got to meet them both through formal introductions by the chair of my panel, Jon Mee. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 38, No.1; Mar 2015: p.1-9 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2015-03 38, 1 |
| Key Words | South Asia ; India ; Transformations ; Subaltern Studies ; Genealogies ; Maoist Rebels |