His work has transcended the local boundaries of India and has inspired the foundation of similar research projects in the Latin American field such as the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group. He is the founder-editor of Subaltern Studies. Bk Cover Image Full. Sign In. Search Cart. Search for:. Book Pages: Illustrations: Published: August Availability: In stock.
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Introduction 1 2. Negation 18 3. Ambiguity 77 4. Modality 5. The answer to this question would depend on the author you are looking at. Chatterjee, in my reading, remains the most consistent Gramscian in the group. As for locating Guha in my own development, let me be brief. Guha was the first historian I met in flesh and blood who had a real enthusiasm for ideas.
He encouraged you not just to go to the archives — which he always did — but to learn to read archival texts actively, reflectively, by thinking about language and its relationship to the world. He had his own way of combining Marxism with Structuralism, philosophies of grammar, and philosophies of history and human existence.
He was inspiring and exemplary in that way. At the same time, he taught us to be humble. They will help you to put yourself back in your own place! This is too large a question to answer in this short space. I cannot do justice to your question here.
I would refer you to some of my essays in The Crises of Civilization. Is there a contradiction between the two questions? He is a public intellectual par excellence , and someone who has always taught us to see beyond both a totalitarian Hindutva and a deracinated sense of the secular.
And he has long been a critic of modernization theories and practices. So, yes, public intellectuals have a critical role to play in contemporary India but the space for them, I am afraid, is shrinking because of a pervasive culture of fear that is silencing dissent. There is still a spirit of dissent that one can find in India but it is becoming expensive for the person expressing dissent.
You never know: there may be a price to pay in terms of harassment by public officials or sometimes even the possibility of being arrested and put in prison. And this is not just to do with the saffron politicians, the culture of punishing dissenters is spreading even in regions not ruled directly by the ruling party.
The problem with fear is that it creates its own reality. This situation is very corrosive for democracy. Well, they are all like teachers to me. Fundamentally, I respect them and respect their scholarship. On that question, I stand with them. But their cases are also somewhat different. Subaltern Studies began by arguing against the positions that Professor Chandra espoused. And he did not have many kind things to say about Subaltern Studies either. One of his students, Majid Siddiqui, was a pioneer in the matter of studying peasant nationalism.
Chandra was also one of the first scholars to apply Latin American dependency theory in explaining the history of industrialization in colonial India in the twentieth century. Those were very stimulating moves. And his doctoral thesis and the book that came out of it were just astounding achievements. He raised many important questions and gave a fresh start to Mughal history.
I am not surprised that there has been a reaction to their work among historians of the following generations, and I am thinking of Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmaniam, and of some of their students in particular. And as for Sumit Sarkar, he is a dear and old friend. He is also a highly respected scholar. He was also a mentor-figure when I was training to be a historian, and his comments of some my first essays were of critical importance to my development. Later, we have been critical of each other at times and have expressed out differences in print.
But that has produced no long-term dent in our friendship. He is still a valued friend and I keep learning from his work. I wonder. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Sign In Article Navigation. Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? Don't have an account?
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