HIS 520:  Problems in Asian History
Subaltern Subjects and Postcolonial Histories

Syllabus (fall 2007)

Links to Course Readings on Electronic Reserves
 

Postcolonial Studies:  a beginning  (Sanjay Seth et. al. in Postcolonial Studies, Vol 1, No 1, pp 7± 11, 1998)

 

Other Relevant Links

 An excellent overview of South Asian historiography  (From Seminar #522 [Feb. 2003] This essay by Neeladri Bhattacharya, titled "The Problem" sets the stage for a series of articles exploring the ongoing controversy around rewriting of History, particularly high school textbooks)

Subaltern Studies Page (Bibliography)

David Ludden's Bibliographies

A Review of the Subaltern Studies Conference 1999 (from EPW)

 The Subaltern Studies Group from  The Postcolonial Web

 Marxists.Org A great website with primary and secondary writing by and about Marxists as well as non-Marxists who have had a significant influence on the world around us.  (Includes a large section on Gramsci, btw, though nothing under Guha or Subaltern Studies!!)

 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts

 History After the Three Worlds: An Introduction by Arif Dirlik, Vinay Bahl and Peter Gran

 Beyond Orientalism: Gauri Viswanathan   

 A Subaltern Editor Squeaks: Language that is unfathomable is also uneditable

More from Rukun Advani (Subaltern Studies Parodies)

Research Tools

 Economic and Political Weekly of India ( A unique, wonderful journal)

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Link to Bibliography of Asian Studies (Via Cline)
 

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