Subalterns weaponized Europeans’ own hidden fears against them

Evidence

James Scott persuasively argues that subalterns use the “official transcript” of elites while maintaining hidden ones for themselves. But in Deli subalterns tapped into the uncertainties, fears, and fantasies of European hidden scripts by playing them back to planters and of- ficials for their own political purposes. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1041

Categorization

• XREF: Directly qualifies and extends James Scott’s ‘Weapons of the Weak’/hidden transcript framework — subalterns read and manipulate the elite’s hidden script rather than only maintaining their own.