In three lectures delivered at Columbia University in October and November 2000, along with an epilogue written for the volume, Guha argues that the total dominance of Britain in India required the ap
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 wh
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 m
The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, was begun with the goal of developing a new critique of both colonialist and nationalist perspectives in the historiography of colonized countries.
"Bhishma," the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Maha‧bharata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. This first volume covers four days from the be
This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha - intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and inf
This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derri
