discuss Subaltern history

[Oshawott]

Do you read about subaltern history compared to the mainstream history?

I am a history buff who recently started to read the history books of the subaltern. I m not very impressed because I find it often having less implications on the larger outcome of the timescale, but its lovely to know how the local people and the lower class tried to interpret the events surrounding them and also the impact of these events.

 

[Yama]

I like to read subaltern history, but do we actually have it. For example, when you want to read about American history you will have a lot of books but do you actually get documented history of the people living there before the Europeans reached the American soil?

 

[Maina]

I believe subaltern history should be written from the first-person perspective because it gives voice to those historically marginalized. Their experiences, perspectives, and agency are often silenced in dominant narratives.