31. The " subaltern school ", was begun in the 1980s by Ranajit Guha and Gyan Prakash. 32. There has also been considerable attention paid to the genre of subaltern subjects such as Rigoberta Mench? 33. Biggles left school and initially joined the army as a subaltern in the Rifle Regiment in 1916. 34. Ensigns were generally the lowest ranking commissioned officer, except where the rank of subaltern itself existed. 35. He used to recall that this regiment was officered by English subalterns from one or two families. 36. For example, Mariamman, another deity of subalterns , is highly influenced by the Vedic rituals. 37. As subalterns , their traditional practices were interpreted by some as evidence that they were inferior ." 38. In this essay Spivak also extended the meaning of subaltern to apply specifically to women in colonial countries. 39. The Subaltern then commands No . 1 Guard to move into close order, and then dresses it. 40. The contingent included two subalterns , Lieutenant John Sheepshanks served as the detachment s chaplain, and Burnaby.