“…This current has swollen in the United States by flowing into other currents already present in academia, such as postmodernism, postcolonialism and multiculturalism. Inspired by Gramsci (1996), Foucault and E. P. Thompson's (1964) study of the making of the English working class, Indian subaltern studies, by gathering testimonies from the underclasses (the oppressed, the dominated, the subordinated and untouchables), has focused on the 'subaltern' rather than the elite's ideas, opinions and viewpoints, which have been the traditional stuff of Indian history (Pouchepadass 2000). 5 Among those sailing on this current of thought are Gyan Prakash, Partha Chatterjee, Gayatri Spivak and Dipesh Chakrabarty.…”