Good Morning,

are you interested in Postcolonialism in India or are you interested in texts on postcolonialism in other countries as well?

And may I ask: On which fielod are you researching - especially the field of postcolonialism efforts in museum studies is reaching a new climax with publications at the moment here in Germany...

Hi Andy Reymann , I am looking for Postcolonialism in India. I am trying to understand the cultural changes that came about in the country as a result of colonialism.

Lakshmi Anil Thank you for your answer!

I ll try to look around and answer again ;-)

Thank you Andy Reymann

you should directly look at the data in the field and the theories about ethnography and semiautonomy of Indian society

Thank you Bambang Parmadi

Hi! These are older, but useful, references that center on subaltern studies. As you know, your topic will have to be narrowed down and maybe some of these references will help you review important theoretical issues to keep in mind and point you to scholars you find most helpful/want to engage with.

Best wishes,

Chakrabarty, Pipesh. "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History," Representations 37: 1-26, 1992.

Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? London: Zed Books, 1986.

1997 "Listening to the Subaltern: the Poetics of Neocolonial States," Poetics Today 15(4): 643 658, 1994.

Guha, Ranajit. "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India." In Selected Subaltern Studies, Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. pp. 37-44.

"The Prose of Counter-Insurgency." In Selected Subaltern Studies, Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. pp. 45-84.

"The Small Voice of History." \nSubaltern Studies IX: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Shahid Amin & Dipesh Chakrabarty, eds. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. pp. 1-12.

Prakash, Gyan. "Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism," The American Historical Review 99: 1475-1490, 1994.

"Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Indian Historiography Is Good to Think." In Colonialism and Culture, Nicholas B. Dirks, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. pp. 353-388.

Ranger, Terence. "Power, Religion and Community: The Matobo Case." In Subaltern Studies VII. Partha Chatterjee & Gyanendra Pandey, eds. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. pp. 221-246.

Said, Edward. "Foreword." In Selected Subaltern Studies. Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. pp. v-x.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, "Can the Subaltern Speak?" In Marxism and Interpretation of Culture. Cary Nelson & Lawrence Grossberg, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. pp. 271-313.

Midnight's children from Salman Rushdie. Also about Partition, which was one of the first post-colonial steps.

A river sutra, from Gita Melah, about recovering identity

The God of small things, from Arundhati Roy, about raising your voice. Plus, as an ecologist activist, she saved Narmada River and Narmada falls from a dam that would have destroyed the whole region.

You might want to consider as well the following titles (that would suggest other readings):

A. Skaria, Hybrid Histories (New Delhi: OUP, 1999).

D. Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

S. Dube, Untouchable Pasts (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).

S. Dube (ed.), Postcolonial Passages (New Delhi: OUP, 2004).

S. Dube (ed.), Historical Anthropology (New Delhi OUP, 2007).

S. Dube (ed.), Modern Makeovers: Handbook of Modernity in South Asia (New Delhi: OUP, 2011).