Indu Swami
The book entitled Speaking with the Subaltern: Exploring Subalternity in North East Indian Writings is a valuable addition to the growing corpus of material on subaltern discourses in the contemporary North-Eastern Region of India. The book examines how various brands of identity politics since the colonial days have served to create the basis of exclusion of groups, resulting in various forms of rifts such as oppression, suppression, marginalization, gender discrimination, subjugation of lower and working classes, neglected sections of society, deprived classes, etc. often envisaged in binary terms: majority-minority; sons of the soil-immigrants; local-outsiders; tribal-non-tribal; hills-plains; inter-tribal and intra-tribal.The anthology would surely serve as a valuable source book for the writers, readers, scholars, teachers and academicians who want to be fully acquainted with the subaltern discourses in the contemporary North-East India.
