A Feministic and Sociological Approach to The Select Essay of Ranajitguha and Rosemary Sayingh

Abstract

Subaltern studies arouse some thirteen years ago as a way of situating historical research so as to minimize the problem of collision of elite and mass. Following the publication in 1983 of Elementary Aspects of Peasants Insurgency in colonial India by RanajitGuha, a Bengali historian, Indian subaltern studies became visible in India. If the traditional historians addressed the progress of the state, Guha and the other subalternists wrote about the activities of those peripheralised by the state.