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Critical Sociology
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Specter of Universalism
Uday Chandra
Georgetown University, Qatar
Abstract
Following recent debates between Vivek Chibber and leading postcolonial
theorists, I probe into what is missing in these exchanges. I focus on
the figure of the ‘tribal’ in modern India in Ranajit Guha’s
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India and Alpa
Shah’s In the Shadows of the State, both of which claim to offer emic
perspectives on subaltern politics and history. Yet both works, despite
their undeniable differences, display a striking universalism that puts
them, paradoxically, in the company of Chibber. This universalism, which
we may call theresisting subject, is about the Other and about us
simultaneously, the former constituted by the latter as an abstract
object of analysis and as a key symbol of intellectual vanguardism. Are
we not better off abandoning such universalisms and searching for ways
in which Marxist theories of culture can be melded with postcolonial
theories of capitalism?
https://www.academia.edu/8475067/Marxism_Postcolonial_Theory_and_the_Specter_of_Universalism
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