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The terms subaltern and subaltern studies entered the vocabulary of post-colonial studies through the works of the Subaltern Studies Group of historians who explored the political-actor role of the common people who constitute the mass population, rather than re-explore the political-actor roles of the social and economic elites in the history ...
The Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) or Subaltern Studies Collective is a group of South Asian scholars interested in postcolonial and post-imperial societies. [1] The term Subaltern Studies is sometimes also applied more broadly to others who share many of their views and they are often considered to be "exemplary of postcolonial studies" and as one of the most influential movements in the field ...
Subaltern (military), a primarily British and Commonwealth military term for a junior officer; Subaltern (postcolonialism), colonial populations who are outside the hierarchy of power; Subalternation, going from a universal proposition to a particular proposition in logic "A Subaltern", the author listed in William Cobbett's "The Soldier's Friend"
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Decoding Subaltern Politics: Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics. Routledge, 2012 (Critical Asian scholarship; 8) ISBN 978-0-415-53975-3; Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play. Princeton University Press, 2012 ISBN 978-0-691-15529-6
Spivak was born Gayatri Chakravorty in Calcutta, India, to a Bengali family. Her father was Pares Chandra Chakravorty and mother was Sivani Chakravorty. [10] After completing her secondary education at St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Spivak attended Presidency College, Kolkata under the University of Calcutta, from which she graduated in 1959.
As an epistemology (i.e., a study of knowledge, its nature, and verifiability), ethics (moral philosophy), and as a political science (i.e., in its concern with affairs of the citizenry), the field of postcolonialism addresses the matters that constitute the postcolonial identity of a decolonized people, which derives from: [2]
Following the war, the Dutch fought Indonesian independence forces after Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945. In 1949, most of what was known as the Dutch East Indies was ceded to the independent Republic of Indonesia. In 1962, also Dutch New Guinea was annexed by Indonesia de facto ending Dutch imperialism in Asia.