Three books will be used for this course:
Chaturvedi, Vinayak (ed) 2000: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso.
Shah, Alpa 2010: In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand. Durham: Duke University Press.
Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney and Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan (eds) 2007: The Crisis of Secularism in India. Durham: Duke University Press.
The syllabus is divided into three 'debates', all of which are subdivided into sub-themes.
Debate 1: Subaltern studies then and now
Foundations
Guha, Ranajit 1997: Introduction to Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India. Stanford: Harvard University Press, p. 1-23.
Guha, Ranajit 1999: Introduction to Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in colonial India. Durham: Duke University Press, p. 1-17
Helland, Frode 2009: Om Spivaks “Can the Subaltern Speak” og oversettelsen, Agora 1:36-39 (4 pp)
Guha, Ranajit 2000: “On some aspects of the historiography of Colonial India”, in Chaturvedi, Vinayak (ed) 2000: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, p. 1-7 (7 pp).
Arnold, David 2000: “Gramsci and peasant subalternity in India”, in Chaturvedi, Vinayak (ed) 2000: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, p. 24-49 (25 pp).
Critique and counter-critique
Guha, Ram 1995: “Subaltern and Bhadralok studies”, in Economic and Political Weekly, August 19 (3 pp).
Prakash, Gyan 2009: “Writing post-orientalist histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian historiography”, in Chaturvedi, Vinayak (ed) 2000: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, p. 163-190 (27 pp)
O’Hanlon, Rosalind and David Washbrook 2000: “After Orientalism: Criticism and politics in the Third World”, in Chaturvedi, Vinayak (ed) 2000: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, p. 191-219 (28 pp)
Prakash, Gyan 2000: “Can the subaltern ride? A reply to O’Hanlon and Washbrook”, in Chaturvedi, Vinayak (ed) 2000: Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, p. 220-238 (18 pp).
Political society and its critics
Chatterjee, Partha 2008: “Democracy and economic transformation”, in Economic and Political Weekly 43 (16). (10 pp)
The discussion pieces by Shah, Baviskar & Sundar, John & Deshpande, and the response by Chatterjee in Economic and Political Weekly: http://www.epw.in/journal/2008/46. (18 pages)
Sundar, Aparna and Nandini Sundar 2012: “ The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics from Governmentality”, in Ajay Gudavarthy (ed): Reframing Democracy and Agency in India. London: Anthem Press, p. 269-288 (19 pp).
Debate 2: Indigeneity, Activism, and Citizenship
Shah, Alpa 2010: In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand. Durham: Duke University Press.
Baviskar, Amita 2011: “Dark side of indigeneity?”, Economic and Political Weekly 46: 44/45 (4 pp).
Indigeneity and Activism
Chandra, Uday 2013: “Going Primitive: The ethics of indigenous rights activism in contemporary Jharkhand”, Samaj 7 (18 pp).
Shah, Alpa 2013: “The tensions over liberal citizenship in a Marxist revolutionary situation: The Maoists in India”, Critique of Anthropology 33(1): 91-109 (19 pp).
Sundar, Nandini 2013: “Reflections on civil liberties, citizenship, Adivasi agency and Maoism: A response to Alpa Shah”, Critique of Anthropology 33(3): 361-368 (7 pp).
Shah, Alpa 2013: “Response to Nandini Sundar’s response to ‘The tensions over citizenship in a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary situation: The Maoists in India’”, in Critique of Anthropology 33 (4): 476-479 (4 pp)
Debate 3: Indian secularism in crisis
Background and comparisons
Bhargava, Rajeev 2009: ?Political secularism: why it is needed and what can be learnt from its Indian version?, in Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Tariq Modood (eds): Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 82-109 (27 pages)
van der Veer, Peter 2012: ?Religion, secularism and national development in India and China?, Third World Quarterly 33(4): 721-734 (13 pages, download)
Mahajan, Gurpreet 2002: ?Secularism as religious non-discrimination: The universal and the particular in the Indian context?, Indian Review 1(1): 33-51 (18 pages, download).
Critical perspectives
Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney and Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan (eds) 2007: The Crisis of Secularism in India. Durham: Duke University Press, p. 1-190, 267-332 and 356-372 (271 pages in all).
De Roover, Jakob 2015: ?Introduction: the crisis of secularism? and ?Ch 1: Limits of liberal secularism? in Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, p. 1-44 (44 pages).