Product Description: This historiography of peasant insurgency in India has frequently been a record of the efforts of the colonial administration to deal with mass uprisings in the countryside. The colonialist tended to see insurgency as a crime or pathology, seldom regarding it as a struggle for social justice, Guha seeks to correct this failure to understand the aims and motives of the insurgent...read more

Product Description: The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history...read more

Product Description: What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its claim to dominance was based on a power relation in which persuasion outweighed coercion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A Rule of Property for Bengal is a classic work on the history of colonial India. First published in 1963, and long unavailable in this country, it is an essential text in the areas of colonial and postcolonial studies. In this book, Ranajit Guha examines the British establishment of the Permanent Settlement of Bengal—the first major administrative intervention by the British in the region and an effort to impose a western notion of private property on the Bengal countryside...read more

The essays here deal principally with issues of domination in an attempt to counter the elitist bias afflicting some academic work on South Asia.

Product Description: The eight essays here are addressed to a wide range of topics extending in time from the Mughal period to the 1970's, and in theme from communalism to industrial labour.

Product Description: This volume continues the fine scholarship in the Subaltern Studies series which is now acknowledged as the "most interesting approach in the field of South Asian studies."

Product Description: These essays unearth and analyze the nature of subaltern consciousness and dissent across a variety of India's regions during the colonial period.