Subaltern Studies aimed to wrest Indian historiography from nationalist elites
Evidence
Perhaps the most brilliant revisionist work was done not in Middle East Studies, but in the field of Indology with the advent of Subaltern Studies, a group of remarkable scholars and researchers led by Ranajit Guha. Their aim was nothing less than a revolution in historiography, their immediate goal being to rescue the writing of Indian history from the domination of the nationalist elite and restore to it the important role of the urban poor and the rural masses. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 878
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Subaltern Studies links to the critical-theory toolkit the reader is assembling — the construction of the Other from below.
Related
- Said praised the Subaltern project without citing its actual texts (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it
#complicates(0.80)