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Subaltern Studies is basically
a school of Indian colonial
history. Its main concern is to
unearth, investigate and
describe the contribution
made by the people on their
own, independently of the elite,
and to establish a subaltern or
peasant consciousness.
The Subaltern Studies group
includes, amongst others,
Ranajit Guha, Shahid Amin,
Gyanendra Pandey, Sumit
Sarkar, and best-known of all,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
The group has made an
ineradicable impact on
historical, political and critical
studies of South Asia.
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