8 - Subaltern Studies No. 8

Subaltern Studies No. 8
Writings on South Asian History and Society
Edited by David Arnold and David Hardiman
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. 240 p.

Contents

	Preface	vii
	Note on Contributors	ix
1.	Claims on the Past: The Genealogy of Modern Historiography in Bengal PARTHA CHATTERJEE	1
2.	The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity: Public Debates on Domesticity in British India DIPESH CHAKRABARTY	50
3.	Power in the Forests: The Dangs, 1820-1940 DAVID HARDIMAN	89
4.	The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge and Penology in Nineteenth-Century India DAVID ARNOLD	148
5.	The Prose of Otherness GYANENDRA PANDEY	188
6.	Ranajit Guha: A Biographical Sketch SHAHID AMIN AND GAUTAM BHADRA	222
7.	A Bibliography of Ranajit Guha's Writings COMPILED BY GAUTAM BHADRA	226
	Index Back to the top	229

Note on Contributors

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DAVID ARNOLD is Professor of South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and the author of Police Power and Colonial Rule: Madras, 1858-1947 (1986); Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change (1988); and Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India (1993).

DIPESH CHAKRABARTY is Director of the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940 (1989). His current work is on gender and domesticity in modern Bengal.

PARTHA CHATTERJEE is Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His publications include Bengal, 1920-47: The Land Question (1985); Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (1986); and The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Post-colonial Histories (1993).

DAVID HARDIMAN is currently a Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He has written Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District, 1917-34 (1981), and The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India (1987), and has edited Peasant Resistance in India, 1858-1914 (1992).

GYANENDRA PANDEY is Professor of History at the University of Delhi. He is the author of The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1926-34 (1978), and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990). He has also edited The Indian Nation in 1942 (1988).

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