Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India

By: Ranajit Guha

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Paperback | 13 August 1999

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Foreword by James Scott

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 influential Subaltern Studies Group&;describes from the peasants&; viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900.
	Challenging the idea that peasants were powerless agents who rebelled blindly against British imperialist oppression and local landlord exploitation, Guha emphasizes their awareness and will to effect political change. He suggests that the rebellions represented the birth of a theoretical consciousness and asserts that India&;s long subaltern tradition lent power to the landmark insurgence led by Mahatma Gandhi. Yet as long as landlord authority remains dominant in a ruling culture, Guha claims, all mass struggles will tend to model themselves after the unfinished projects documented in this book.
	Students and scholars will welcome this paperback edition of Guha&;s 1983 original, which was distributed on a limited scale in the United States. It will influence new generations studying colonialism, postcolonialism, subaltern studies, historiography, anthropology, and Indian, Asian, and Latin American history.

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"A classic in subaltern studies as well as in postcolonial studies."--Jose Rabasa, University of California, Berkeley

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Regional & National History Asian History Specific Events & Topics in History Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions Earliest Times to Present Day

Foreward to the Duke Edition
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Negation
Ambiguity
Modality
Solidarity
Transmission
Territorality
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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