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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1569-2094
- eISSN
- 1569-2108
- DOI
- 10.1163/156921007x180622
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Abstract
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156921007X180622 People from Different Backgrounds Write Different Histories: An Essay on Historiography (Britain and India) Mahamadou Diallo Département d’Etudes Anglophones, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Lettres, Arts et Communication, Université de Ouagadougou mahamadou.diallo@univ-ouaga.bf Abstract Back in the 1980s, with the publication of the Subaltern Studies series under the editorship of Ranajit Guha, a new way of writing history was proposed to the world of historians. Th e project, known as subaltern historiography , very quickly took the form of an emerging intellectual move- ment, conceived and developed in the spirit of the wider movement of Deconstruction . Very quickly, too, it started positioning itself, if not as an alternative to elitist historiography , at least as a serious counterpart to it. Looking back to the period, I must admit that I then saw the new movement as a driving force that was poised to revolutionize the whole concept of historiogra- phy. Whether it has succeeded in doing so or not remains to be seen, but I was so favourably impressed at the time that I recently decided to make the present flashback in order to show that it has, if
Journal
African and Asian Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007