17. A Brief History of Subaltern Studies (1998)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Empire and Nation
6. 1. Whose Imagined Community? (1991) 23
7. 2. The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse (1987 37
8. 3. History and the Nationalization of Hinduism (1991) 59
9. 4. The Fruits of Macaulay’s Poison Tree (1985) 91
10. 5. Of Diaries, Delirium, and Discourse (1996) 111
11. 6. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women’s Question (1989) 116
12. 7. Our Modernity (1994) 136
13. 8. A Tribute to the Master (2001) 153
14. 9. Those Fond Memories of the Raj (2005) 161
15. 10. Beyond the Nation? Or Within? (1997) 164
16. Part II: Democracy
17. 11. Democracy and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death (2001) 181
18. 12. Secularism and Toleration (1994) 203
19. 13. Satanic? Or the Surrender of the Modern? (1988) 236
20. 14. Development Planning and the Indian State (1994) 241
21. 15. We Have Heard This Before (1990) 267
22. 16. A Response to Taylor’s ‘Modes of Civil Society’ (1990) 275
23. 17. A Brief History of Subaltern Studies (1998) 289
24. 18. The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal, 1920–1947 (1986) 302
25. 19. On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal (1999) 340
26. Index 359