Volume 3, Issue 1
Fluid Borders, Exploring East and South Asian Interactions
Borders, political constructs imposed by states for governance or drawn by colonial powers to assert influence, are generally perceived as boundaries. At the same time, they are also networks of interaction, marking the fluidity of ideas, culture, religious and linguistic symbolisms. This issue of L’Histoire seeks to explore such layers of connected histories, hoping to address the nuances pertaining to them and how they keep affecting the dynamics of contemporary social milieu. In this conflict-ridden era, also encompassing social and political upheavals, identifying and understanding webs of interaction across the passages of time thus becomes relevant.
Volume 2, Issue 2
Displaced Cultures: Uncovering Suppressed Narratives
It is common among historians to classify almost all topics as majoritarian. However, there have been very few works that really attempt to make a stand away from these majoritarian narratives, and we are proud to announce that we could make such an attempt. The theme of cultural displacement poses a hidden function: that it makes it immensely difficult to take sides. As every prototype academician opines “there is no binary in the world and everything is grey'', we the team of L'Histoire truly believe the same. We tried our best to objectively highlight the voices of displacement, even though it has been established numerous times before that there is nothing in the world without bias.
Volume 2, Issue 1
(Hi)Stories of the Folk: Ranajit Guha and Subaltern Studies
In this issue of L’Histoire, we revisit the question of subalternity and belonging, and the right to the nation in an effort to carry on the monumental work started by the late Professor Ranajit Guha. With essays by a number of up-and-coming academics, we hope that this issue forms a worthy addition to the body of literature that continues to interrogate and interact with subaltern studies as a field, and bring to the forefront narratives and works that have been avoided by mainstream histories.
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