Autore
Chatterjee, Partha

Titolo
Gramsci in India: Capitalist Hegemony and Subaltern Politics
Periodico
Studi storici
Anno: 2017 - Volume: no - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 963 - Pagina finale: 986

This article reviews the use of Gramsci's ideas in Indian historical scholarship since the 1970s, around four themes. (1) In analyzing the history of peasant revolts in colonial India, scholars of "Subaltern Studie"s argued that the rebellions show an autonomous subaltern consciousness that was subservient in ordinary times but acted politically in moments of revolt to negate the signs of subordination. (2) In analyzing state formation, these scholars characterized the colonial state as a dominance without hegemony and the postcolonial state as a passive revolution. (3) Cultural historians have analyzed the formation of the people/nation by describing the hierarchical relation between English, the colonial language of state, and the many regional languages in which, through printed texts and audiovisual media, the idea of the nation has been popularized. (4) The most recent period has seen the attempt to create a new hegemonic bloc based on Hindu majoritarianism under conditions of rapid primitive accumulation and competitive populism. This historical process is unknown in the history of Western capitalism.



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