Mahasweta Devi’s Titu Mir : A History written by ‘ Subalterns’

Abstract

The history created by 'subalterns' in the Indian freedom struggle largely goes unnoticed because their contribution to the Independence Movement is never properly documented. Many small scale subaltern resistances in the interiors of India went unrecorded, unsung and forgotten from the mainstream memory. Historians of colonial era have deliberately termed the ‘tribal resistance’ and ‘peasant uprising’ as ‘old fashioned’ and  ‘unimportant’ scuffling  so that Indians could be portrayed more as collaborators with the British rather than participants in the act(s) of resistance against the Empire(Guha).