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[[File:Subaltern_Studies.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Selected Subaltern Studies]]
Historical articles in the edit collection <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195052897/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195052897&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=922bfd5fbd977f5e09c5b208d231afdc Selected Subaltern Studies]</i> by historians and social theorists Ranajit Guha, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Vinay Bahl, Florencia Mallon and others, examine the origin, development, and potential of Subaltern Studies within the academic community. The selected works discussed below address the social and economic implications of this post-colonial approach to historical interpretation. Introduced in India by historian Ranajit Guha in the early 1980s, <i>Selected Subaltern Studies</i> departs from both colonial and Marxist interpretations of the popular experience of the Indian people under colonial domination, seeking to recognize the agency and purpose embedded in their insurgency and resistance.
In <i>Selected Subaltern Studies</i>, Guha enumerates the dangers and limitations of the historiography of colonial India and suggests a new way to read official and administrative colonial archive records. His treatment of institutionalized colonial dishonesty is dynamic and successful as he offers analytical tools that enable historians to ‘read against the grain’ as they cull colonial archives, and recognize the “code of pacification” (Guha 59) that obscures the power and intent of subaltern insurgency. Using concepts of hegemony and resistance first articulated by Antonio Gramsci, Guha makes a profound contribution to the academic effort to separate the historian’s perspective from that of the state.
