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SUB-ALTERNITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN SELECT INDIAN WRITINGS

Dr. Shadan Jafri

Volume: 4 Issue: 3 2014

Abstract:

In critical theory, the term “Subaltern” describes the section of people that are socio-politically and geographically excluded from the dominion of the power structure of the colony and the colonial homeland. Antonio Gramsci coined the term “Subaltern” that refers to ‘of inferior rank’. It indicates those groups in society who are under the supremacy of the ruling classes. The term “subaltern” is used in the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, human geography, literary criticism and art history. There exists a “Subaltern Studies Group” - SSG, a collection of historians of the Indian Subcontinent, who explored the role of men and women who constitute the mass population, rather than the political roles of social and economic elites, in the history of the Indian subcontinent

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