Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

Vinayak Chaturvedi is a Professor of History at the University of California in Irvine. Gyan Prakash (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is professor of modern Indian history at Princeton University and a member of the Subaltern Studies Editorial Collective. He is the author of "Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India" (1990), "Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India" (1999) and "Mumbai Fables" (2010). Professor Prakash edited "After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements" (1995) and "Noir Urbanisms" (2010), codited "The Space of the Modern City" (2008) and "Utopia/Dystopia" (2010), and has written a number of articles on colonialism and history writing. He is currently working on a history of the city of Bombay. With Robert Tignor, he introduced the modern world history course at Princeton University.

This volume in the Mapping series offers a balance-sheet of the Subaltern Studies Project, an intervention in South Asian history and politics, which has generated an impact in Latin American, Irish, and African Studies.