History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2021 History (Shift-II)
Which text opens with a provocative opening statement, 'The historiography of Indian nationalism has for a long time been dominated by elitism'?
AThe Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
BSubaltern Studies Vol. I ✓ Correct
CA Rule of Property for Bengal
DPeasant Movement in Colonial India: North Bihar, 1917-1942
Correct answer: (B) Subaltern Studies Vol. I — It is Subaltern Studies Vol. I, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★It is Subaltern Studies Vol. I, so that is the answer.
★The text Subaltern Studies, Volume I, opens with this provocative statement.
★It was edited by Ranajit Guha.
★The Subaltern Studies group sought to write history from the perspective of the common people.
★They criticised both colonialist and nationalist elite historiography.
★So the text with this opening is Subaltern Studies Vol. I.
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