Editing Subaltern Studies (section)

{{short description|Group of South Asian scholars of postcolonial and post-imperial underclasses}}
The '''Subaltern Studies Group''' ('''SSG''') or '''Subaltern Studies Collective''' is a group of [[South Asian]] scholars interested in [[postcolonial]] and post-[[Empire|imperial]] societies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781444334982_chunk_g978144433498223_ss1-28 |title=Subaltern Studies : The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies : Blackwell Reference Online |access-date=2018-05-18 |archive-date=2018-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519144042/http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781444334982_chunk_g978144433498223_ss1-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The term ''Subaltern Studies'' is sometimes also applied more broadly to others who share many of their views.  Subaltern Studies is often considered to be "exemplary of postcolonial studies" and as one of the most influential movements in the field.<ref>{{cite book |last=Connell |first=Raewyn |date=2005 |title=Southern Theory}}</ref> Their anti-[[Essentialism#In historiography|essentialist]] approach<ref>{{cite book |last=Atabaki |first=Touraj |author-link=Touraj Atabaki |title=Beyond Essentialism: Who Writes Whose Past in the Middle East and Central Asia? Inaugural lecture, 13 December 2002 |url=http://atabaki.nl/upload/Beyond%20Essentialism.pdf |year=2003 |access-date=29 April 2013 |archive-date=22 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822192630/http://atabaki.nl/upload/Beyond%20Essentialism.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> is one of [[People's history|history from below]], focused more on what happens among the masses at the base levels of society than among the elite.