Examples of 'subaltern' in a sentence
Meaning of "subaltern"
Subaltern (adjective): Indicates a subordinate or secondary position in a hierarchical structure or social order. It is often used in the context of power dynamics, social classes, or military rankings
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- Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
- Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
- A subordinate.
- A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
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They are subaltern of white narrators and heros.
They should not call themselves subaltern.
The subaltern declared that there was a group of.
Rankers rarely reached beyond subaltern ranks.
You are a dutiful subaltern but you lack imagination.
Discourse associated and signified to the subaltern.
Subaltern religion does not stand by itself.
They are at war against the subaltern classes.
The subaltern judge made a merit of his rigor.
There is no one way of doing subaltern linguistics.
The only subaltern people they let in are the servants.
It can not be confused with broad subaltern studies.
A proposition is a subaltern of another if it must be true.
It belonged to the rank group of lieutenants or subaltern officers.
The subaltern is obliged to obey.
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I would rather leave one of the subaltern sir.
Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism.
But the man was just a subaltern.
These were probably subaltern officers charged with leading detachments of mules.
It could well spring from our subaltern depths.
Decoding subaltern politics.
Spivak or the voice of the subaltern.
Migrants who overcome this subaltern situation accumulate more capital.
When he was a young subaltern.
He was a subaltern in my regiment.
They betrayed their goal to produce subaltern studies.
The everyday life of the subaltern people in the town found expression in his poems.
Some dashing young subaltern.
I was a young subaltern in the Colonial police.
They matter to the subaltern.
A subaltern is a primarily British military term for a junior officer.
The impossibility of subaltern history.
But there was little scope for the activities of a young and energetic subaltern.
Their function can be compared to that of subaltern officers in the army.
Marxism is often attacked as being somewhat devoid of the interpersonal experiences of the subaltern.
The forum signifies how the subaltern can not speak.
Few subaltern stories of Gopal Bhar referred his name often.
The average life expectancy of a subaltern in the trenches was a mere six weeks.
Some typically ideological obstacles designate the role of nurses as a supposedly subaltern occupation.
I think right now our subaltern It is digested by some beast.
All these sabhas aimed to achieve the upliftment of the subaltern dalit castes.
The Battery Sergeant Major and a subaltern were decorated for bravery during this action.
David Hardiman is a historian of modern India and a founding member of the subaltern studies group.
By then only one Subaltern Officer was left.
The subaltern school of Veterinary Medicine.
I came as a subaltern.
Bobby Wick is made a subaltern and he joins a regiment called the Tyneside Tail Twisters.
It is a decolonial transmodern response of the subaltern to Eurocentric modernity.
She became Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor and trained as a mechanic and military truck driver.
The military interventions of Washington and their subaltern NATO allies have also proved a failure.
