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What does subaltern mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of a lower rank or position; inferior or secondary; especially (military) ranking as a junior officer, below the rank of captain.
  2. (logic) Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition.
Noun
  1. A subordinate.
  2. (Britain) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
  3. (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition. For example, some crows are black is a subaltern of all crows are black.
  4. (social sciences) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
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