Deploying the provocative idea of the ?subaltern citizen?, this
book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and
difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United
States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and
marginalized people, the essays presented here devote deliberate
attention to diverse locations of subalternity: in the conditions
and histories of slaves, dalits, peasants, illegal immigrants,
homosexuals, schoolteachers, women of noble lineage; in the Third
World and the First; in pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial
times.
With contributions from a diverse group of distinguished
scholars, the anthology explores issues of gender and sexuality,
migration, race, caste and class, education and law, culture and
politics. The very juxtaposition of different bodies of scholarship
serves to challenge common perceptions of inherited histories ?
claims to American and Indian ?exceptionalism? ? and promotes a new
awareness, not only of shared histories and shared struggles in the
making of the modern world, but of particularities and facets of
our different histories and societal conditions that are assumed as
being well understood, and hence often taken for granted.
Subaltern Citizens and Their Histories will be essential reading
for scholars of colonial, postcolonial and subaltern studies,
American studies, US and South Asian social science and
history.
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