Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (Mappings Series) is a collection of essays by a group of historians who were united in their disapproval of the way that the history of India and the freedom movement was interpreted in the Subaltern Studies project.The book starts off with an introduction by Vinayak Chaturvedi and has 15 chapters with detailed and elaborate views of famous historians on the subject. The first chapter is by Ranajit Guha and is followed by Partha Chatterjee and David Arnold who were two of the founding members of the Subaltern Studies collective. Rajnarayan Chandavarkar Rosalind O'Hanlon C A Bayly and Tom Brass are critiques of the Subaltern project and they also have separate chapters with their views. Other contributors include Gyan Prakash David Washbrook Sumit Sarkar Dipesh chakrabarty and Gyanendra Pandey. The book concludes with an interview of Gayatri Spivak who talks about the future of the Subaltern Studies project.Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (Mappings Series) is edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and has David Arnold C A Bayly Tom Brass and Dipesh Chakrabarty as the main contributors to its content. This new edition and was published by Verso in 2012 as a paperback.