5 - Subaltern Studies No. 5

Subaltern Studies No. 5
Writings on South Asian History and Society
Edited by Ranajit Guha
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. 296 p.

Contents

Preface	vii
Note on Contributors	viii
Acknowledgement	x
The Bhils and Shahukars of Eastern Gujarat by *David Hardiman*	1
Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague, 1896-1900 by *David Arnold*	55
A Literary Representation of the Subaltern: Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini' by *Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak*	91
Chandra's Death by *Ranajit Guha*	135
Approver's Testimony, Judicial Discourse: The Case of Chauri Chaura by *Shahid Amin*	166
Discussion Subaltern Studies: Capital, Class and Community by *Asok Sen*	203
Discussion In Search of a Subaltern Lenin by *Ajit K. Chaudhury*	236
Appendix A: 'Breast-Giver' by Mahsweta Devi translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	252
Appendix B: The Testimony of Shikari, the Approver, in the Court of Sessions Judge H.E. Holmes	277
Glossary	290
Index Back to the top	292

Note on Contributors

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SHAHID AMIN is a Reader in Modern Indian History at the University of Delhi. He is the author of Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur. An Inquiry into Peasant Production for Capitalist Enterprise in Colonial India (Delhi, 1984).

DAVID ARNOLD is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Lancaster. He is the author of The Congress in Tamdnadu: Nationalist Politics in South India 1919-37 (Delhi, 1977) and Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras 1859-1947 (Delhi, 1986). He is currently working on epidemics and famines in nineteenth- and twentiety-century India.

AJIT K. CHAUDHURY is a Reader in Economics at the University of Calcutta. His publications include a number of essays on macroeconomic theory and the Marxian theory of value.

RANAJIT GUHA works in the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

DAVID HARDIMAN is a Fellow of the Centre for Social Studies, Surat. He is the author of Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District, 1917-34 (Delhi, 1981) and The Coming of the Devi. Adivasi Assertion in Western India.

ASOK SEN is Professor of Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is the author of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and His Elusive Milestones (Calcutta, 1977) and co-author of Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure of Bengal 1850-1947 (Calcutta, 1982).

GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK is Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published widely on questions of Marxism, feminism, deconstruction and the critique of imperialism. She is the translator of Jacques Derrida's De la Grammatologie into English. Her study, Master Discourse, Native Informant, is to appear from Columbia University Press.

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