Gadagkar, R (2006) A Subaltern View of Eusociality - A Review of - The Other Insect Societies by James T. Costa, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2006). In: Science, 314 (5804). pp. 1391-1392.
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The Other Insect Societies by James T. Costa Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006. 811 pp. $59.95, £38.95, €55.30. ISBN 0-674-02163-0. In the early 1980s, a group of scholars consisting largely of Indian historians set up the Subaltern Studies Group and persuaded Oxford University Press, New Delhi, to launch a new publication series, Subaltern Studies: Writings of South Asian History and Society. Inspired and led by their chief mentor, Ranajit Guha, many, now well-known, historians (among them Gyan Prakash, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Partha Chaterjee, Shahid Amin, and Gyanendra Pandey) pursued a relatively new brand of historiography (1). The principal novelty of their approach was to focus on ordinary people—the masses, the peasants, and other marginalized groups. They created a history from “below” rather than the usual narrative of the kings, leaders, and other elites. Two decades and ten volumes later, it is clear that the subaltern studies have yielded a valuable new perspective on history, one perhaps especially useful for understanding and managing present-day social and cultural problems.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Science |
| Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Additional Information: | copyright to this article belongs to e American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Keywords: | Book review, Evolution of insect societies, Eusociality, Subaltern studies |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2021 10:24 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2021 10:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68274 |
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