- Ranajit Guha
Ranajit Guha is a
historian ofSouth Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and edited several early numbers of the group's anthologies. He migrated fromIndia to the UK in the 1960s, and currently lives inVienna ,Austria .Writings
Author
*"A rule of property for Bengal : an essay on the idea of permanent settlement", Paris [etc.] : Mouton & Co., 1963, New edition: Duke University Press, ISBN 0822317613
*"Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India", Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983, New edition: Duke Univ Press, 1999, ISBN 0822323486 - a classic of Subaltern Studies
*Guha, Ranajit, " [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231124198 History at the Limit of World-History] " (Italian Academy Lectures), Columbia University Press 2002
*"An Indian Historiography of India: A Nineteenth Century Agenda & Its Implications". Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi & Company. 1988.
*"Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India", Harvard University Press, 1998Editor
*(withGayatri Chakravorty Spivak ), "Selected Subaltern Studies", New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
*"A Subaltern Studies Reader,1986-1995", Univ of Minnesota Press, 1997, ISBN 0816627584econdary literature
*Sathyamurthy, T. V. "Indian Peasant Historiography: A Critical Perspective on Ranajit Guha's Work." In: "Journal of Peasant Studies" (October 1990) vol.18, no.1, pp.93–141. Ranajit Guha's Biography written by Shahid Amin and Gautama Bhatra and the complete bibliography compiled by Gautama Bhatra are available in Subaltern Studies Volume VIII edited by David Arnold and David Hardiman, OUP, 1994.
External links
* [https://risenphoenix.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/ranajit-guha-on-elitist-historiography-an-analysis/ An Analysis of the essay "On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India"]
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