Subaltern Studies or the Postcolonial Critique of Modernity

Subaltern Studies, an Indian series of collected essays whose publication began almost 20 years ago, was born under the auspices of radical social history, & has now become a major entry point of postmodernist ideas in the field of South Asian social sciences. The critique of Enlightenment rationality, the metanarratives of progress, & the nation-state that underlies the work of its contributors, mostly South Asian social scientists not infrequently associated with North American universities, is intimately correlated with the discourse of postmodernity. As a result, the audience of the series is now expanding in other areas of the formerly colonized world. 51 References. Adapted from the source document.