Subaltern Consciousness and Historiography of Indian Rebellion of 1857

@article{citeulike:3485915, abstract = {The subaltern historians' rewriting of history has two objectives: (1) the dismantling of elitist historiography by decoding biases and value judgments in records, testimonies, and narratives of the ruling-classes; and (2) the restoration to subaltern groups of their 'agency', their role in history as 'subjects', with an ideology and a political agenda of their own. While the first objective has yielded some interesting and important insights, the second has led to results which have been, at best, problematic, and, at worst, tediously neo-antiquarian and remarkably unremarkable in their banality. These problems derive from the contradictions and confusions inherent in the very concept of subalternity as a socio/political category.}, author = {Perusek, Darshan}, citeulike-article-id = {3485915}, doi = {10.2307/4400141}, issn = {00129976}, journal = {Economic and Political Weekly}, keywords = {studies, subaltern}, number = {37}, pages = {1931--1936}, posted-at = {2008-11-06 22:59:23}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Economic and Political Weekly}, title = {Subaltern Consciousness and Historiography of Indian Rebellion of 1857}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4400141}, volume = {28}, year = {1993} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3485915 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3485915 N2 - The subaltern historians' rewriting of history has two objectives: (1) the dismantling of elitist historiography by decoding biases and value judgments in records, testimonies, and narratives of the ruling-classes; and (2) the restoration to subaltern groups of their 'agency', their role in history as 'subjects', with an ideology and a political agenda of their own. While the first objective has yielded some interesting and important insights, the second has led to results which have been, at best, problematic, and, at worst, tediously neo-antiquarian and remarkably unremarkable in their banality. These problems derive from the contradictions and confusions inherent in the very concept of subalternity as a socio/political category. IS - 37 JF - Economic and Political Weekly SN - 00129976 EP - 1936 TI - Subaltern Consciousness and Historiography of Indian Rebellion of 1857 PB - Economic and Political Weekly VL - 28 SP - 1931 KW - studies KW - subaltern AU - Perusek, Darshan PY - 1993/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4400141 ER -