Subaltern Studies No. 10Writings on South Asian History and Society
Edited by Gautam Bhadra, Gyan Prakash, and Susie Tharu
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 252 p.
Reviews - Prathama Banerjee 1999.
Subaltern Studies No. 10| Preface | v | |
| List of Illustrations | viii | |
| Note on Contributors | ix | |
| 1. | Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying Sudesh Mishra |
1 |
| 2. | A Market for Aboriginality: Primitivism and Race Classification in the Indentured Labour Market of Colonial India Kaushik Ghosh |
8 |
| 3 | Colouring Subalternity: Slaves, Concubines and Social Orphans in Early Colonial India Indrani Chatterjee |
49 |
| 4. | Taming Traditions: Legalities and Histories in Twentieth-Century Orissa Ishita Banerjee Dube |
98 |
| 5. | Spatializing History: Subaltern Carnivalizations of Space in Tiruppuvanam, Tamil Nadu Sundar Kaali |
126 |
| 6. | Untouchable Freedom: A Critique of the Bourgeois Landlord Indian State Vijay Prashad |
170 |
| 7. | Indian Magical Realism: Notes on Popular Visual Culture Christopher Pinney |
201 |
| 8. | Gendering the 'Nationalist Subject': Palestinian Camp Women's Life Stories Rosemary Sayigh |
234 |
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INDRANI CHATTERJEE taught History
at Miranda House, Delhi University. At present she is
a Senior Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam
Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta.
ISHITA BANERJEE DUBE is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colego de Mexico, Mexico City. She obtained her Ph.D. degree (in History) from the University of Calcutta. She has been a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. KAUSHIK GHOSH is a graduate student in anthropology at Princeton University. SUNDAR KAALI is completing his doctoral dissertation on the community theatres of Tamil Nadu. He researches and writes on a number of subjects in cultural studies including film, theatre and ritual. SUDESH MISHRA is a poet from Fiji and currently teaches literature at Stirling University, Scotland. CHRISTOPHER PINNEY is in the Department of Anthropology at University College, London. He was a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London for several years and was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, Canberra in 1997-8. He is the author of Camera Indica (Reaktion and Chicago University Press, 1977). VIJAY PRASHAD is Assistant Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, USA. ROSEMARY SAYIGH is a research scholar based in Beirut, Lebanon. Back to the top. |
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