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Books by Guha Ranajit
  | | Dominance without Hegemony(1st Edition) History and Power in Colonial India (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 1997 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-21483-5, ISBN: 0-674-21483-8 " 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. Conversely, the colonial state was non-hegemonic, and in its structure of dominance coercion wa ..." |
 | | History at the Limit of World-History(1st Edition) (Italian Academy Lectures) by Professor Ranajit Guha Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12419-5, ISBN: 0-231-12419-8 "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. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such h ..." |
 | | Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India(99th Edition) by Research Ranajit Guha, Professor Ranajit Guha, James C. Scott, James Scott Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1999 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2348-8, ISBN: 0-8223-2348-6 "Foreword by James ScottThis classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guhaâintellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Groupâdescribes 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 rebe ..." |
 | | A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995(1st Edition) by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1997 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2759-2, ISBN: 0-8166-2759-2 "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. Its most famous members - Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and others - were instrumental in establishing the discipline best known as postcolonial studies. A selection of the definitive and most influential work from the collective's epon ..." |
 | | Selected Subaltern Studies(1st Edition) (Essays from the 5 Volumes and a Glossary) by Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Edward W. Said, Selected Subaltern Studies - Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1988 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505289-3, ISBN: 0-19-505289-7 "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 Derrida's Of Grammatology into English--and a foreword by eminent critic Edward W. Said. Addressed to students and scholars throughout the humanities, these essays address what Antonio Gramsci--the founder of the Italian communist party--called t ..." |
 | | Subaltern Studies(Reprint) Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 4 by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 383 Pages, Published 1994 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-563530-0, ISBN: 0-19-563530-2 "The fourth volume of Subaltern Studies comprises seven empirical studies and two discussion pieces on the Subaltern project." |
 | | History at the Limit of World-History by Ranajit Guha Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2002 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12418-8, ISBN: 0-231-12418-X "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. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such h ..." |
 | | Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India(Reprint) (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1993 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-563157-9, ISBN: 0-19-563157-9 "The historiography of peasant insurgency in India has hitherto been a record of the colonial administration's effort to deal with insurgency. The result has been a failure to understand the insurgent. The colonialist has commonly seen insurgency as crime, seldom understanding it as a fight for social justice. Guha's work adopts the peasant's viewpoint and studies "the peasant rebel's awareness of his own world and his will to change it. ..." |
 | | Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Professor Ranajit Guha Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-566050-0, ISBN: 0-19-566050-1 "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. He adopts the peasant's viewpoint and examines the peasan ..." |
 | | Subaltern Studies Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 2 by Ranajit Guha Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1983 by Oxford Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-19-561502-9, ISBN: 0-19-561502-6 |
 | | Mahabharata Book Six (Volume 1): Bhishma (Clay Sanskrit Library) by Alex Cherniak Vyasa, Alex Cherniak, Ranajit Guha Hardcover, 450 Pages, Published 2008 by Clay Sanskrit ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-1696-0, ISBN: 0-8147-1696-2 " “Bhishma,” the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Maha•bhárata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Káuravas and the Pándavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous “Bhágavad•gita (“The Song of the Lord”), presented here within its original epic context. In this “bible” of Indian civilization the charioteer Krishna empowers his disciple Árjuna to re ..." |
 | | A Rule of Property for Bengal(Reprint) An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement by Ranajit Guha, Amartya K. Sen Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 1996 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1771-5, ISBN: 0-8223-1771-0 "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 pri ..." |
 | | Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India by Ranajit Guha Hardcover, 370 Pages, Published 1984 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-561517-3, ISBN: 0-19-561517-4 |
 | | Subaltern Studies(Updated) Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 6 by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 335 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-563536-2, ISBN: 0-19-563536-1 "This volume, first published in hardback in 1989 (and subsequently reissued in paperback), is being published in a different paperback format - Oxford India Paperbacks - with a new ISBN." |
 | | Subaltern Studies(Updated) Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 1 by Ranajit Guha, Guha Ranjit Paperback, 241 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-563443-3, ISBN: 0-19-563443-8 "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."" |
 | | Subaltern Studies(Reprint) Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 3 by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 1994 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-563529-4, ISBN: 0-19-563529-9 "These essays unearth and analyze the nature of subaltern consciousness and dissent across a variety of India's regions during the colonial period." |
 | | Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial(Reprint) (Mappings Series) by Vinayak Chaturvedi, Tom Brass, Dipesh Chakrabarty, David Arnold, C.A. Bayly, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Partha Chatterjee, Ranajit Guha, Rosalind O'hanlon, Gyanendra Pandey, Gyan Prakash, Sumit Sarkar, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2012 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-637-8, ISBN: 1-84467-637-4 "Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world.Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of ‘history from below’. Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upo ..." |
 | | Subaltern Studies Reader 1986-1995(2nd Edition) by Ranajit Guha Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-565230-7, ISBN: 0-19-565230-4 "The essays in this volume chart the course of subaltern history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency." |
 | | Subaltern Studies(Updated) v. 3: Writings on South Asian History and Society by Ranajit Guha, Non Stated Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 1990 by Oup India ISBN-13: 978-0-19-562482-3, ISBN: 0-19-562482-3 |
 | | Subaltern Studies Writings on South Asian History and Society: v. 4 (Subaltern Studies) by Ranajit Guha Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1987 by Oup India ISBN-13: 978-0-19-561840-2, ISBN: 0-19-561840-8 "Volume IV contains seven empirical studies and two discussion pieces on the Subaltern project." |
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