GST Reforms and Subaltern Voices | Leivon Victor Lamkang, Karamala Areesh Kumar

The recent announcement of GST reforms by the finance minister, which was covered widely across multiple media outlets, has sparked different debates across the country. Much of this discussions and debate focus on what the informal sector perceives these changes to be, directly linking the potential benefits or disadvantages to be obtained by the subalterns. The article draws its conceptual framework from the subaltern propagated early on by Antonio Gramsci. He identifies this community section as consistently excluded from the socio-political discourse, while the consensus is mainly shaped by the elite-upper and Urban-middle class, while outside such a realm is often not considered. Moreover, drawing from the analysis of what Spivak propagates,