- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. openDemocracy’s Discourses exhibition and discussion series is ...

When Siddharth Sahu was in college, he started taking an interest in the Dalits, a community he belonged to. As a student of history, he was keen on understanding not just the community’s origins, but ...

- A term that commonly refers to persons who are socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure. Who are the subaltern? Do they have the ability to politically and ...

The protests that took place in late December and early January in cities across Iran has resulted in at least 22 deaths and hundreds of arrests [Anadolu] In the most widespread series of ...

Since the mid-1980s, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has split much of her working time between Columbia University—where she holds the post of University Professor in the Humanities—and a cluster of ...

One of the most influential South Asian historians, famous for his epoch-making work on subaltern studies, Ranajit Guha, who would have turned 100 this May, passed away yesterday. The Indian historian ...

In October of 1957—when many of the graduates attending their 50th reunion this week were beginning their senior year of college—the Faculty Committee on Regional Studies at Harvard established the ...

Having been brought up in a family with one part of it having British ancestry (my father’s), I developed a fondness for English football (the child in me), very difficult to banish later on in years ...