Authors : Mr. Dilip M. Bawane, Dr. Shriram G. Gahane
Page Nos : 178-181
Description :
The present research paper tries to explain the key concepts: subaltern studies and postcolonial criticism. It is necessary to understand post-colonialism to study varied means of subordination that are a prime focus of subaltern study collectives. As post-colonial criticism has caused a revolutionary reconsideration of knowledge and social identities; written and dominated by colonialism and eurocentrism of the dominant west. Nowadays, subaltern concern has become so overriding that it is recurrently used in various disciplines such as history, psychology, sociology, anthropology and literature. The emergent post-colonial critique seeks to undo the structure of western domination and the Eurocentrism produced by the institution of the West’s trajectory. Subaltern studies which began in 1982 as an intervention in South Asian historiography and developed into a dynamic post-colonial critique, put forth challenges to the existing historical scholarship. The term ‘subaltern’ now appears with growing frequency in the studies on Africa, Latin America, Europe, the subaltern analysis has become a recognizable mode of critical scholarship in history, literature, and anthropology.
