Vol. 1.
Contents
List of Maps and illustrations vi
Preface vii
Note on Contributors ix
Acknowledgement x
On Some Apects of the Historiography
of Colonial India
by Ranajit Guha 1
Agrarian Relations and communalism in
Bengal, 1926-1935
by Partha Chatterjee 9
Small Peasant commodity Production and
Rural Indebtedness: the Culture of Sugarcane
in Eastern U.P., c. 1880-1920
by Shahid Amin 39
Rebellious Hillmen: the Gudem-Rampa Risings,
1939-1924
by David Arnold 88
Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism: The
Peasant movement in Awadh, 1919-1922
by Gyan Pandey 143
The Indian �Faction': A Political
Theory Examined
by David Hardiman 198
Glossary 233
Index 239

Vol 2.
Contents
Preface vii
Note on Contributors ix
Acknowledgement xi
The Prose of Counter-Insurgency
by Ranajit Guha 1
Two Frontier Uprisings in Mughal India
by Gautam Bhadra 43
Rallying round the Cow: Sectarian Strife in the Bhojpuri
Region, c. 1888-1917
by Gyan Pandey 60
Quit India in Bihar and the Eastern United Provinces: The
Dual Revolt
by Stephen Henningham 130
Agrarian Change from Above and Below: Bihar 1947-78
by Arvind N. Das 180
Agricultural Workers in Burdwan
by N. K. Chandra
Conditions for Knowledge of Working-Class Conditions:
Employers, Government and the Jute Workers of
Calcutta, 1890-1940
by Dipesh Chakrabarty 259
More on Modes of Power and Peasantry
by Partha Chatterjee 311
Glossary 351
Index 355

Vol. 3.
Contents
Preface vii
Note on Contributors ix
Acknowledgement xi
Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921-2
Shahid Amin 1
Famine in Peasant Consciousness and Peasant Action:
Madras, 1876-8
David Arnold 62
Trade Unions in a Hierarchical Culture: The Jute Workers of
Calcutta, 1920-50
Dipesh Chakrabarty 116
Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society
Partha Chatterjee 153
Adivasi Assertion in South Gujarat: The Devi Movement
of 1922-3
David Hardiman 196
'Encounters and Calamities': The History of a North
Indian Qasba in the Nineteenth Century
Gyanendra Pandey 231
The Conditions and Nature of Subaltern Militancy:
Bengal from Swadeshi to Non-Co-operation, c.1905-22
Sumit Sarkar 271
Glossary 321
Index 325

Vol. 4.
Contents
Preface vii
Note on Contributors ix
Acknowledgement xi
Bureaucratic Recruitment and Subordination in Colonial India:
The Madras Constabulary, 1859-1947
by David Arnold 1
Forestry and Social Protest in British Kumaun, c. 1893-1921
by Ramachandra Guha 54
Adivasi Politics in Midnapur, c. 1760-1924
by Swapan Dasgupta 101
Jitu Santal's Movement in Malda, 1924-1932:
A Study in Tribal Protest
by Tanika Sarkar 136
From Custom to Crime: The Politics of Drinking in Colonial
South Gujarat
by David Hardiman 165
Four Rebels of Eighteen-Fifty-Seven
by Gautam Bhadra 229
The Command of Language and the Language of Command
by Bernard S. Cohn 276
Discussion
Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 330
Discussion
Invitation to a Dialogue
by Dipesh Chakrabarty 364
Glossary 377
Index 381

Vol. 5.
Contents
Preface vii
Note on Contributors viii
Acknowledgement x
The Bhils and Shahukars of Eastern Gujarat
by David Hardiman 1
Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian Plague,
1896-1900
by David Arnold 55
A Literary Representation of the Subaltern:
Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini'
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 91
Chandra's Death
by Ranajit Guha 135
Approver's Testimony, Judicial Discourse:
The Case of Chauri Chaura
by Shahid Amin 166
Discussion
Subaltern Studies: Capital, Class and Community
by Asok Sen 203
Discussion
In Search of a Subaltern Lenin
by Ajit K. Chaudhury 236
Appendix A: 'Breast-Giver'
by Mahsweta Devi
translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 252
Appendix B: The Testimony of Shikari, the Approver,
in the Court of Sessions Judge H.E. Holmes 277
Glossary 290
Index 292

Vol. 6.
Contents
Preface vii
Note on Contributors x
Acknowledgement ix
The Kalki-Avatar of Bikrampur: A Village Scandal in Early
Twentieth Century Bengal
by Sumit Sarkar 1
The Mentality of Subalternity: Kantanama or Rajdharma
by Gautam Bhadra 54
Feminist Fictions: A Critique of the Category �Non-
Western Woman' in Feminist Writings on India
by Julie Stephens 92
Response to Julie Stephens
by Susie Tharu 126
The Colonial Construction of �Communalism':
British Writings on Banaras in the Nineteenth Century
by Gyanendra Pandey 132
Caste and Subaltern Consciousness
by Partha Chatterjee 169
Dominance Without Hegemony and Its Historiography
by Ranajit Guha 210
Discussion
Subaltern as Perspective
by Veena Das 310
Glossary 325
Index 329

Vol. 7.
ontents
Preface vii
Acknowledgement ix
Note on Contributors ix
1. The Imaginary Institution of India
Sudipta Kaviraj 1
2. A Religion of Urban Domesticity: Sri Ramakrishna and
the Calcutta Middle Class
Partha Chatterjee 40
3. Discipline and Mobilize
Ranajit Guha 69
4. Myths, Symbols and Community: Satnampanth
of Chhattisgarh
Saurabh Dube 121
5. The Slave of MS. H.6
Amitav Ghosh 159
6. Power, Religion and Community: The Matobo Case
Terence Ranger 221
7. Discussion -
'The State's Emissary: The Place of Law in
Subaltern Studies
Upendra Baxi 247
Index 265

Vol. 8.
Contents

Preface vii
Note on Contributors ix
1. Claims on the Past: The Genealogy of
Modern Historiography in Bengal
2. The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity:
Public Debates on Domesticity in British India
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY 50
3. Power in the Forests: The Dangs, 1820-1940
DAVID HARDIMAN 89
4. The Colonial Prison: Power, Knowledge and
Penology in Nineteenth-Century India
DAVID ARNOLD 148
5. The Prose of Otherness
GYANENDRA PANDEY 188
6. Ranajit Guha: A Biographical Sketch
SHAHID AMIN AND GAUTAM BHADRA 222
7. A Bibliography of Ranajit Guha's Writings
COMPILED BY GAUTAM BHADRA 226
Index 229

Vol. 9.
Contents
Preface vii
Note on Contributors ix
1. The Small Voice of History
Ranajit Guha 1
2. Writing, Orality and Power in the Dangs,
Western India, 1800s-1920s
Ajay Skaria 13
3. Science between the Lines
Gyan Prakash 59
4. Small Speeches, Subaltern Gender: Nationalist
Ideology and Its HistoriographyKamala Visweswaran 83
5. Speech, Silence and the Making of Partition
Violence in Mewat Shail Mayaram 126
6. Productive Labour, Consciousness and History:
The Dalitbahujan Alternative
Kancha Illaih 165
7. 'Rowdy-sheeters': An Essay on Subalternity and Politics
Vivek Dhareshwar and R. Srivatsan 201
8. Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender
Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana 232
9. Outside History: Irish New Histories
and the 'Subalternity Effect
David Lloyd 261
Glossary 381
Index 355

Vol. 10.
Contents
Preface v
List of Illustrations viii
Note on Contributors ix
1. Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying
Sudesh Mishra 1
2. A Market for Aboriginality: Primitivism and
Race Classification in the Indentured Labour
Market of Colonial India
Kaushik Ghosh 8
3 Colouring Subalternity: Slaves, Concubines and
Social Orphans in Early Colonial India
Indrani Chatterjee 49
4. Taming Traditions: Legalities and Histories in
Twentieth-Century Orissa
Ishita Banerjee Dube 98
5. Spatializing History: Subaltern Carnivalizations
of Space in Tiruppuvanam, Tamil Nadu
Sundar Kaali 126
6. Untouchable Freedom: A Critique of the Bourgeois
Landlord Indian State
Vijay Prashad 170
7. Indian Magical Realism:
Notes on Popular Visual Culture
Christopher Pinney 201
8. Gendering the 'Nationalist Subject':
Palestinian Camp Women's Life Stories
Rosemary Sayigh 234
Index 355