Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Guha, Ranajit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195660501 ISBN 13: 9780195660500

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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 peasant rebel's awareness of his own world and his will to change it. The study covers the period 1783-1900 and identifies some of the elementary aspects that characterized peasant rebel consciousness in this period. This classic work deserves to form an indispensable part of the reading list of all serious students of South Asian history.

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"Very unusual and original. Guha presents a new set of conceptual categories to understand the peasant situation in the postcolonial era. His work has transcended the local boundaries of India and has inspired the foundation of similar research projects in the Latin American field such as the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group."--Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State University

About the Author

Ranajit Guha is the founder editor of the Subaltern Studies Collective, established in 1982. He last taught at the Australian National University in Canberra.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195660501
• ISBN 13: 9780195660500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370